Inanna passes through seven gates to the realm of her sister Ereshkigal, is killed and hung as a corpse, and is restored — a foundational descent-and-return mythos.
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Tradition
Sumerian mythological poem. The earliest known katabasis (descent-of-the-divinity narrative) and a structural ancestor of the Persephone, Christ-harrowing-of-Hell, and other descent traditions.
Translation
ETCSL — J.A. Black, G. Cunningham, E. Robson, G. Zólyomi et al. (2003). Used by permission for educational and non-commercial purposes.
License
ETCSL translation. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary under ETCSL's non-commercial educational use clause.