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Copy of the Akkadian version of Ishtar's Descent into Hell, from the " Library of Ashurbanipal ' in Nineveh, 7th century BC, British Museum, UK.. The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld (or, in its Akkadian version, Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld) or Angalta ("From the Great Sky") is a Sumerian myth that narrates the descent of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar in Akkadian) into the ...
Inanna's name is also used to refer to the Goddess in modern Neopaganism and Wicca. [393] Her name occurs in the refrain of the "Burning Times Chant," [394] one of the most widely used Wiccan liturgies. [394] Inanna's Descent into the Underworld was the inspiration for the "Descent of the Goddess," [395] one of the most popular texts of ...
The seven judges of the underworld judge Inanna and declare her to be guilty. Inanna is struck dead and her corpse is hung on a hook in the underworld for everyone to see. Inanna's minister, Ninshubur, however, pleads with various gods and finally Enki agrees to rescue Inanna from the underworld. Enki sends two sexless beings down to the ...
In Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, Inanna perceives that Dumuzid has failed to properly mourn her death and, when she returns from the Underworld, allows the galla demons to drag him down to the Underworld as her replacement. Inanna later regrets this decision and decrees that Dumuzid will spend half of the year in the Underworld, but the ...
Both Shara himself and a location associated with him, the Sigkuršaga, appear in the myth Inanna's Descent to the Underworld. [6] When Inanna looks for a substitute after being released from the underworld , Shara is one of the candidates she considers, but since much like Ninshubur and Lulal he was properly mourning her death, she tells the ...
Katz points out that some elements of this myth overlap with Inanna's Descent, but the similarity is limited, because the "journey to the netherworld is twisted and presented as a conspiracy of the galla to dispatch [Inanna] there against her will." [60] Furthermore, the account of Geshtinanna's torture finds no parallel in any other text. [61]
Before Inanna embarks on her journey to the land of the dead, seemingly motivated by a desire to take over it, [175] she instructs Ninshubur what to do if she will not return after three days. [176] It is assumed that this scene is supposed to establish that she is not going to be trapped in the underworld permanently. [ 171 ]
Inanna pleads the aid of Utu, the sun god, but he refuses (44–90) Inanna pleads the aid of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, who agrees: he addresses each of the three objects plaguing the tree. He then fells the tree and uses it to make a chair and bed for Inanna. For himself, he creates a ball and a stick (the pukku and the mekkû) (91–150)