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Ereshkigal
Queen of the great earth and mistress of the land of no return: the underworld's lawful ruler, and the elder sister who hangs Inanna on a hook.
- Epithets:
- the queen below; mistress of the land of no return.
- Kin:
- elder sister of Inanna; consort Nergal.
In the myths:
queen of the underworld; in the Descent she hangs her sister on a hook and is later moved by the mourners' antiphon to give her back; in the Akkadian Nergal and Ereshkigal she takes Nergal as consort.
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Everything above is the attested record, with its sources. Chronicles of Uruk also tells a story on top of this figure, and that layer is ours rather than Sumer's. It belongs to the story, so this page marks that it exists and does not describe it. You will meet it in play, or not at all.
Sources
The pages this entry is drawn from. ORACC and ETCSL are the scholarly editions; the rest are general references.
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