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イナンナはシュメールの天の神アンに、エビフ山を破壊することを許すよう懇願した<ref>Karahashi, 2004, page111</ref>。アンはイナンナに山を攻撃しないように警告するが<ref>Karahashi, 2004, page111</ref>、イナンナは彼の警告を無視してエビフ山を攻撃し破壊してしまう<ref>Karahashi, 2004, page111</ref>。神話の結末で、彼女はエビフ山をなぜ攻撃したかを説明する<ref>Karahashi, 2004, pages111–118</ref>。
Inanna petitions to [[Anu|An]], the Sumerian god of the heavens, to allow her to destroy Mount Ebih. An warns Inanna not to attack the mountain, but she ignores his warning and proceeds to attack and destroy Mount Ebih regardless.{{sfn|Karahashi|2004|page=111}} In the conclusion of the myth, she explains to Mount Ebih why she attacked it. In Sumerian poetry, the phrase "destroyer of Kur" is occasionally used as one of Inanna's epithets.{{sfn|Kramer|1961|page=82}}
{{anchor|Inanna and Shukaletuda}}The poem ''Inanna and Shukaletuda'' (ETCSL [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr133.htm 1.3.3]) begins with a hymn to Inanna, praising her as the planet Venus.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} It then introduces Shukaletuda, a gardener who is terrible at his job. All of his plants die, except for one poplar tree.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} Shukaletuda prays to the gods for guidance in his work. To his surprise, the goddess Inanna sees his one poplar tree and decides to rest under the shade of its branches.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} Shukaletuda removes her clothes and rapes Inanna while she sleeps.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} When the goddess wakes up and realizes she has been violated, she becomes furious and determines to bring her attacker to justice.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} In a fit of rage, Inanna unleashes horrible plagues upon the Earth, turning water into blood.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} Shukaletuda, terrified for his life, pleads his father for advice on how to escape Inanna's wrath.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} His father tells him to hide in the city, amongst the hordes of people, where he will hopefully blend in.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} Inanna searches the mountains of the East for her attacker,{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} but is not able to find him.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} She then releases a series of storms and closes all roads to the city, but is still unable to find Shukaletuda,{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} so she asks [[Enki]] to help her find him, threatening to leave her temple in [[Uruk]] if he does not.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} Enki consents and Inanna flies "across the sky like a rainbow".{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=162}} Inanna finally locates Shukaletuda, who vainly attempts to invent excuses for his crime against her. Inanna rejects these excuses and kills him.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=163}} Theology professor Jeffrey Cooley has cited the story of Shukaletuda as a Sumerian astral myth, arguing that the movements of Inanna in the story correspond with the movements of the planet Venus.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|pages=161–172}} He has also stated that, while Shukaletuda was praying to the goddess, he may have been looking toward Venus on the horizon.{{sfn|Cooley|2008|page=163}}
