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[8] [9] No personal names with "Ereshkigal" as a theophoric element are known. [10] In the ancient Sumerian poem Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, Ereshkigal is described as Inanna's older sister. [11] However, this is a cultural artifact since the Sumerians used terms such as sister as a way to place each other on the same level in hierarchy.
Inanna is the daughter of Sîn (Nanna in Sumerian), the moon god, and his wife Nikkal. Her siblings include the sun god Shamash (Utu in Sumerian) and Ereshkigal, her older sister. [15] Inanna is a goddess with a multifaceted nature. She is the goddess of love, fertility, war, grain, and prosperity. [16]
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 ...
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 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 ...
In the poem Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, Ereshkigal is described as Inanna's "older sister". [23] Gugalanna is the first husband of Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld. [16] His name probably originally meant "canal inspector of An" [16] and he may be merely an alternative name for Ennugi. [16]
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 ...
He may have also been the father of Inanna and Ereshkigal. Ningal was the wife of Nanna, [39] as well as the mother of Utu, Inanna, and Ereshkigal. Ereshkigal was the goddess of the Sumerian Underworld, which was known as Kur. [16]: 184 She was Inanna's older sister. [40] In later myth, her husband was the god Nergal.
In fact, Inanna's name is commonly derived from Nin-anna which literally means "Queen of Heaven" in ancient Sumerian (It comes from the words NIN meaning "lady" and AN meaning "sky"), [10] although the cuneiform sign for her name (Borger 2003 nr. 153, U+12239 𒈹) is not historically a ligature of the two.