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255 Fig. 82 stand before your fearsome face . . . could not soothe your angry heart.". Rock carvings in the annexed territories depicted Inanna as the ruthless conqueror she had become (Fig. 83). At the beginning of her campaigns Inanna was still called "Be- loved of Enlil" and one "Who carries out the instructions of Anu." But then her thrust began to change in nature, from the sup- pression of rebellions to a calculated plan for seizing supremacy. Two sets of texts, one dealing with the goddess and the other with her surrogate, the king Naram-Sin, record the events of those times. Both indicate that the first out-of-bounds target of Inanna was the Landing Place in the Cedar Mountain. As a Flying Goddess Inanna was quite familiar with the place; she "burnt down the great gates" of the mountain and, after a brief siege, ob- tained the surrender of the troops guarding it: "they disbanded themselves willingly." As recorded in the Naram-Sin inscriptions, Inanna then turned south along the Mediterranean coast, subduing city after city. The conquest of Jerusalem—Mission Control Center—is not specifi- Prelude to Disaster