SallyA

Oh oh .... Idea ... not Cosmere related, (but actually, maybe) ....

Inanna, goes to Hel (that's Celtic, can't recall the Sumerian name) ... because her beloved Drumuzi is dead, but she can beg a child (breeding session) off his brother ... this is Sumerian high-person law.

The wife of said brother tells her no way, and sends her into the depths, where she is stripped & hung on a pole.  The lady runs this place, 100%.

Inannna's  faithful steward gets a message off to Anu on the home world, and he sends his King's Men to administer 60 days waters of life and 60 days bread of life to the now 'expired' Inanna ....

She wakes up and walks out of Hel, along with many figures which look like sticks! . . . Birds or insects?

I wonder if this is in any way similar to the Parshmen changing form in a storm?

Would some King, somewhere whip up a NEW Storm to save his favorite?  Would some new "form" come into being in the depths of time?  Birds? 

Is Venli the servant of Odium?  His Champion?

Perhaps its dangerous to mix archeology and mythic magical fiction?