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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 ...
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]
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"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 ...
Izanami and Izanagi are held to be the creators of the Japanese archipelago and the progenitors of many deities, which include the sun goddess Amaterasu, the moon deity Tsukuyomi and the storm god Susanoo. In mythology, she is the direct ancestor of the Japanese imperial family.
In Sumerian religion, Gugalanna (๐๐ฒ ๐ญ ๐พ [GU 4.GAL.AN.NA] or ๐ญ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ ๐พ [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 ...
Ruha is the daughter of Qin, the Mistress of Darkness in the first underworld. She is the ruler of the third maแนญarta (watch-house or purgatory). She is associated with lust, uncleanness (i.e., menstrual impurity), and other negative feminine qualities.
Erecura or Aerecura / ษ r ษ ห k สr ษ / (also found as Herecura or Eracura) [1] was a goddess worshipped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin, mostly represented with the attributes of Proserpina and associated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater, as on an altar from Sulzbach. [2]