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Inanna, a goddess, and queen of Heaven, decides to descend to the Underworld, the "Land of No Return", where her sister and sworn enemy Ereshkigal resides. The text does not explicitly state her motivation, but the reactions of the gods Enlil and Nanna (a few lines later) suggest that it may have been a spontaneous decision, potentially driven ...
Kanisurra (also Gansurra, Ganisurra) [1] was a Mesopotamian goddess who belonged to the entourage of Nanaya. Much about her character remains poorly understood, though it is known she was associated with love. Her name might be derived from the word ganzer, referring to the underworld or to its entrance.
Julia M. Asher-Greve has even championed the significance of Inanna specifically because she is not a mother-goddess. [100] As a love goddess, she was commonly [quantify] invoked by Mesopotamians in incantations. [101] [f] In Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, Inanna treats her lover Dumuzid in a very capricious manner. [97]
For her fourth and final task, Psyche was given a golden box and ordered to travel to the Underworld to retrieve a bit of beauty possessed by Persephone, goddess of spring, and queen of the Underworld. Psyche, believing this last task was impossible, once again decided to take her own life.
Another Hurrian goddess connected to the underworld who sometimes appears in the proximity of Allani was Shuwala, though she was more commonly associated with Nabarbi. [33] Edward LipiΕski argues that Shuwala was the same deity as Allani, [34] but they appear together as two distinct deities in texts from Ur [35] and Hattusa. [36]
"Queen of the Great Earth") [1] [2] [a] was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology. In later myths, she was said to rule Irkalla alongside her husband Nergal . Sometimes her name is given as Irkalla , similar to the way the name Hades was used in Greek mythology for both the underworld and its ruler, and ...
In Sumerian religion, Gugalanna (ππ² π πΎ [GU 4.GAL.AN.NA] or πππ² π πΎ [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 ...