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Neti
The chief gatekeeper of the underworld, who takes Inanna's answers at the outer gate and works the seven gates by instruction.
- Epithets:
- chief doorman of the below; the one who asks the questions in order.
- Kin:
- none recorded.
In the myths:
the chief gatekeeper of the underworld, who takes Inanna's answers at the outer gate, carries them to Ereshkigal, and works the seven gates by instruction.
What the record has
Everything above is the myth as the texts and the scholarship have it, and the sources are listed so you can check us. The chronicle uses this figure; it does not add to them.
Sources
The pages this entry is drawn from. ORACC and ETCSL are the scholarly editions; the rest are general references.
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In the chronicle
This figure appears in Chronicles of Uruk. What follows is our retelling, not the record above.
The poem has him open seven gates and take one thing at each. The chamber makes you stand at those gates yourself, and he is as the poem has him: procedural, unhurried, entirely uninterested in whether you agree.
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