Nergal and Ereshkigal

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Mesopotamian myth ancient Near Eastern literary text mythological narrative

"Nergal and Ereshkigal" is an ancient Mesopotamian myth recounting how the war god Nergal becomes the consort of Ereshkigal, queen of the underworld, thereby uniting the realms of the living and the dead.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mesopotamian myth ⓘ ancient Near Eastern literary text ⓘ mythological narrative ⓘ
associatedPlace	Kutha NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ
cosmologicalRole	unites the realms of the living and the dead ⓘ
culture	Akkadian NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesopotamian ⓘ
depictsRelationship	marriage of Nergal and Ereshkigal ⓘ
featuresDeity	Anu NERFINISHED ⓘ Ea NERFINISHED ⓘ Ereshkigal NERFINISHED ⓘ Kutha god Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ Namtar NERFINISHED ⓘ Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	myth ⓘ underworld myth ⓘ
language	Akkadian language NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainCharacter	Ereshkigal NERFINISHED ⓘ Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ
narrativeEvent	Ea instructs Nergal how to protect himself in the underworld NERFINISHED ⓘ Ereshkigal demands Nergal’s return and marriage ⓘ Nergal offends Ereshkigal by failing to rise before her messenger Namtar ⓘ Nergal returns and becomes king or co‑ruler of the underworld NERFINISHED ⓘ Nergal spends nights with Ereshkigal and then attempts to flee ⓘ The gods decree that Nergal must descend to the underworld to atone ⓘ
plotSummary	Nergal descends to the underworld and becomes consort of Ereshkigal ⓘ
preservationStatus	fragmentary ⓘ
relatedWork	Descent of Inanna NERFINISHED ⓘ Descent of Ishtar NERFINISHED ⓘ
religiousFunction	explains Nergal’s role as consort of Ereshkigal ⓘ integrates cults of Nergal and Ereshkigal ⓘ rationalizes Nergal’s authority in the underworld ⓘ
scholarlyField	Assyriology ⓘ
setting	Ereshkigal’s palace ⓘ Mesopotamian underworld NERFINISHED ⓘ heaven of the gods ⓘ
studiedIn	Mesopotamian religion NERFINISHED ⓘ comparative mythology ⓘ
symbolizes	political and cultic unification of divine powers over the dead ⓘ
textualForm	cuneiform tablet composition ⓘ
theme	marriage of gods ⓘ power and sovereignty in the underworld ⓘ transgression and reconciliation ⓘ union of life and death realms ⓘ
timePeriod	first millennium BCE ⓘ late second millennium BCE ⓘ
writingSystem	cuneiform ⓘ

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Ereshkigal → myth → Nergal and Ereshkigal ⓘ