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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):
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".
However, when she discovers that her husband, Dumuzid, has not mourned her death, she becomes ireful towards him and orders the demons to take him as her replacement. [11] Diane Wolkstein argued that Inanna and Ereshkigal represent polar opposites: Inanna is the queen of heaven, but Ereshkigal is the queen of Irkalla. [16]
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". [16] [24] [23] During the Akkadian Period (c. 2334 – 2154 BC), Ereshkigal's role as the ruler of the underworld was assigned to Nergal, the god of ...
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".
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 ...
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The intelligible part of the poem describes Inanna pining after her husband Dumuzid, who is in the steppe watching his flocks. [60] Inanna sets out to find him. [60] After this, a large portion of the text is missing. [60] When the story resumes, Inanna is told that Dumuzid has been murdered. [60]