TAYLOR SWIFT · SERIES · 6 parts

Inanna and the Showgirl

What the Inanna reading of The Life of a Showgirl actually claims, in its proponents' own words, and the rules this study holds itself to.

The parts, in order

PART 1

The theory, and how to read this study

What the Inanna reading of The Life of a Showgirl actually claims, in its proponents' own words, and the rules this study holds itself to.

PART 2

The stories, one by one

Twenty-three Sumerian and Akkadian stories with Inanna in them, read from the Oxford corpus, each with the case for the album reading and the counter against it.

PART 3

Track by track, both readings

All twelve songs read complete against the myths, with the three elements the theory rests on traced to their sources first.

PART 4

The case for a coherent retelling

The strongest honest version of the theory: not one myth start to finish, but a descent-and-sacred-marriage cycle in showgirl clothes.

PART 5

The visuals, the numbers, and the equinox

What the artwork and videos show, what the dated record actually contains, and what the September equinox did and did not deliver.

PART 6

What would move this, and the receipts

What would confirm the reading, what would sink it, what is still open — and all eighty sources the series stands on.