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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.
Inanna/Ishtar's nudity, according to the historian, represents an exception to the general rule. To strip Inanna, Ereshkigal must trap the goddess of love and invent a story of seven gates to make her remove all her "Me." These are more related to desire and sexuality than to the dead and affliction.
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 ...
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 Sumerian religion, Gugalanna (𒄞𒃲 𒀠𒈾 [GU 4.GAL.AN.NA] or ð’€ð’„˜ð’ƒ² 𒀠𒈾 [D GU 2.GAL.AN.NA]) is the first husband of Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld. [1] His name probably originally meant "canal inspector of An" [1] and he may be merely an alternative name for Ennugi. [1] The son of Ereshkigal and Gugalanna is ...
In the Sumerian poem, Inanna does not seem to ask Gilgamesh to become her consort as she does in the later Akkadian epic. [5] Furthermore, while she is coercing her father An to give her the Bull of Heaven, rather than threatening to raise the dead to eat the living as she does in the later epic, she merely threatens to let out a "cry" that ...
Ancient Akkadian cylinder seal depicting Inanna resting her foot on the back of a lion while Ninshubur stands in front of her paying obeisance, c. 2334-2154 BC. [34]: 92, 193 Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [20]: 109 She was the divine personification of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star.
Multiple traditions regarding Ninazu's parentage existed. He was regarded either as a son of Ereshkigal and a "Great Lord" (possibly to be identified with Gugalanna, known from the god list An = Anum and from the myth Inanna's Descent to the Nether World), who might have been analogous to anonymous deities described as "mighty cow" and "untamable bull" attested as his parents elsewhere, of ...