C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew recounts to us the genesis of the world of Narnia.
It is a creation account of sorts, but my lecture will emphasis the way in which Lewis's portrait of Jadis is a representation of Ishtar, the goddess of love worshipped by Babylon the Great, and thus an illustration of love used for idolatrous purposes.
Rather than being informed by the agape love of Aslan demonstrated in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, she represents eros curved in upon itself, and is thus a diabolical counterpart as well as a foil for the creative power of 'eros baptised'.
Lewis cleverly connects that tale to a test of obedience in something like the Garden of Eden.
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I may be wrong, but I see a lot of parallels with Genesis and this Narnian Book.