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In Sumerian and Akkadian (Babylonian and Assyrian) mythology, Ereshkigal, wife of Nergal, was the goddess of Irkalla, the land of the dead. She managed the destiny of those who were beyond the grave, in the Underworld, where she was queen. Sumer (or Shumer, Sumeria, Shinar, native ki-en-gir) formed the southern part of Mesopotamia from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until the time of Babylonia. ... Akkad (or Agade) was a city and its region of northern Mesopotamia, situated on the left bank of the Euphrates, between Sippar and Kish (located in present-day Iraq, ca. ... Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu, an ancient city in Mesopotamia (Location: , , modern Al Hillah, Iraq). ... Assyria in earliest historical times referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Ashur. ... ... The name Nergal (or Nirgal or Nirgali) refers to a deity in Babylonia with the main seat of his cult at Cuthah (or Kutha) represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim. ... In Akkadian and Sumerian mythology, Irkalla (also Ir-Kalla, Irkalia) is the Hell-like underworld from which there is no return. ... // In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly dead souls go. ...


It was said that she had been stolen away by Kur and taken to the Underworld, where she was made queen unwillingly. She is actually the twin sister of Enki. Ereshkigal was the only one who could pass judgement and give laws in her kingdom, and her name means "Lady of the Great Place", "Lady of the Great Earth", or "Lady of the Great Below". Her main temples were at Kutha and Sippar. In Sumerian mythology Kur was a monstrous demon personifying the home of the dead, Hell, the river of the dead (see also Styx), and the void space between the primeval sea (Abzu) and the earth (Ma). ... This article is in need of attention. ... Kutha is the name of two places, one factual and one mythical. ... Sippara (Zimbir in Sumerian, Sippar in Assyro-Babylonian) was an ancient Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, north of Babylon. ...


D&D

In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, which based many of its archdevils and demon princes on actual myths, Ereshkigal is no exception. She is mentioned in passing in the 1st edition Monster Manual 2 as one of the demonic rulers of the Abyss. She appears as a behind-the-scenes villain in the 2nd edition Silver Anniversary module "Return to the Keep on the Borderland" under the slightly different spelling of Erishkigal. The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... An abyss (Greek: a-, privative, bussos, bottom) is a bottomless depth; hence any deep place. ...


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Ereshkigal - LoveToKnow 1911 (0 words)
ERESHKIGAL, also known as Allatu, the name of the chief Babylonian goddess of the nether-world where the dead are gathered.
Ereshkigal is therefore the sister of Ishtar and from one point of view her counterpart, the symbol of nature during the non-productive season of the year.
The addition of Nergal represents the harmonizing tendency to unite with Ereshkigal as the queen of the nether-world the god who, in his character as god of war and of pestilence, conveys the living to Irkalla and thus becomes the one who presides over the dead.
Ereshkigal (153 words)
Her minister Namtar had to go to heaven as her messenger, for Ereshkigal felt that she was already pregnant.
Ereshkigal is dark and violent, befitting her role as goddess of the underworld.
In the Sumerian cosmogony she was carried off to the underworld after the separation of heaven and earth.
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