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Inanna agrees to intercede with Ereshkigal to alleviate Dumuzi's suffering, responding to the tears of his sister. [51] According to Bénédicte Cuperly, Inanna alone determines that Dumuzi will return among the living for half the year and be replaced by his sister Geshtinanna for the other half. [14] As [Inanna] cried for her husband, (she said):
The son of Ereshkigal and Gugalanna is Ninazu. [1] In Inanna's Descent into the Underworld , Inanna , the goddess of love, beauty, sex, and war, tells the gatekeeper Neti that she is descending to the Underworld to attend the funeral of "Gugalanna, the husband of my elder sister Ereshkigal".
Ereshkigal is described as being Inanna's older sister. When Neti, the gatekeeper of the underworld, informs Ereshkigal that Inanna is at the gates and demanding to be let in, Ereshkigal responds by ordering Neti to bolt the seven gates of the underworld and to open each separately, but only after Inanna has removed one article of clothing.
In the poem Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, Ereshkigal is described as Inanna's "older sister". [23] Gugalanna is the first husband of Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld. [16] His name probably originally meant "canal inspector of An" [16] and he may be merely an alternative name for Ennugi. [16]
Inanna pounds on the gates of the underworld, demanding to be let in. [263] [264] [259] The gatekeeper Neti asks her why she has come [263] [265] and Inanna replies that she wishes to attend the funeral rites of Gugalanna, the "husband of my elder sister Ereshkigal".
In Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, Inanna tells the gatekeeper Neti that she is descending to the Underworld to attend the funeral of "Gugalanna, the husband of my elder sister Ereshkigal". [140] [364] [142] Gunura: Gunura was the daughter of Ninisina and thus sister of Damu. [151] She was not associated with other healing goddesses, such ...
E. von der Osten-Sacken describes evidence for a weakly developed but nevertheless existing cult for Ereshkigal; she cites aspects of similarity between the goddesses Ishtar and Ereshkigal from textual sources – for example they are called "sisters" in the myth of "Inanna's descent into the nether world" – and she finally explains the ...
In the myth of Inanna's Descent, [35] Inanna, in order to console her grieving sister Ereshkigal, who is mourning the death of her husband Gugalana (gu 'bull', gal 'big', ana 'sky/heaven'), slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu, sets out to visit her sister. Inanna tells her servant Ninshubur ('Lady Evening', a reference to Inanna's role as the evening ...