Ahat ilī. Siostra bogów | Olga Tokarczuk

The story of the Sumerian goddess of war and love Inanna, descending to the underground land of the dead, only to return to the world of the living after a few days, is one of the oldest myths of humanity, echoed in the sacred texts of Babylon, Greece and Christianity.

Olga Tokarczuk tried to retell it twice

First in the novel Inanna in the Tombs of the World, and later in the libretto for the opera Ahat ilī. Sister of the Gods by Aleksander Nowak. She found in it a universal story about the Goddess and discovered that understanding it allows her to overcome the fear of death and thus achieve immortality.

The text of the libretto by Olga Tokarczuk is accompanied by an erudite, richly illustrated commentary by Zbigniew Mikołejko, explaining the journey of mythological motifs in time and space. Together - the Nobel Prize-winning writer and an outstanding religious scholar - in an act of literary and philosophical archeology, they reach the deepest layers of unchanging human ideas, fears and desires.