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   :blobcatflower: (methyltheobromine@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:12:01 JST :blobcatflower:
   @kura inanna is ereshkigal's sister, they're both deities. however in sumerian the words for brother and sister are not just used for family members but also very close friends if they're not divided by hierarchy.
   akkadians cared less about them, especially inanna (then called ishtar). i hate akkad but i won't get into that.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:12:00 JST Sick Sun

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     @lucy @kura I think the reason there's ambiguity about this is because leaders of Sumerian cities were considered royal consorts of goddesses, typically but not always Inanna. As a result of this politics of the kings came were intertwined with genealogies and several cities had different genealogies for gods to play up some desired symbolic connection. So if you went from city to city there were different or modified stories based on these changes and the influence of the city affected the popularity of the stories. So there are a lot of alternative stories for Inanna, but not Ereshkigal. Symbolically they were obviously complementary as goddesses of the underworld and of heaven so this explains why they were considered sisters. I don't have any backing for believing this but I think that Inanna-worship was just more desirable since she was the goddess of sex/fertility and heaven, compared to being the goddess of the underworld. Also she had a series of temples populated with priestesses where you could make offerings and have sex with Inanna through a priestess. There were Ereshkigal cults later in Sumer's existence but Inanna was always popularly worshiped.
     
     When I was a college student in ye olde 1996 I drew comic books about sumerian mythology and just spent hours at a time in the library reading tablet translations. At one point I was seriously trying to learn enough German to read some translations only in German.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:14:32 JST Sick Sun

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     @lucy @kura I really dislike how Ishtar looks in Fate. She should be soft with big hips.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:39:45 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     @sun @lucy @kura
     
     > ...spent hours at a time in the library reading tablet translations. At one point I was seriously trying to learn enough German to read some translations only in German.
     
     A lot of that is now available in English via the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. For instance this translation of the classic descent of Inanna.
     
     https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm
     
     Around 2300 BCE Inanna and Ishtar had their myths and identities syncretized by the first named author in history Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, after a political feud with the rebel Sumerian king Lugal-Anne-Mundu.
     
     In the 4th century CE Ereshkigal even got syncretized with the Greco-Anatolian Titan/Goddess Hecate as "Hecate-Ereshkigal" in the Greek Magical Papyri (GPM).
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:11:51 JST Sick Sun

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     @lucy @kura @toiletpaper very cool iraqis
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:11:53 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     @sun @kura @lucy
     
     Btw, I don't mean to belabour this, but hopefully you'll appreciate it anyway. Those myths were generally intended to be sung like a song, as the priesthood were defacto poets and musicians. This modern rendition of the Babylonian flood myth is absolutely beautiful, which I may have shared before, but is absolutely worth sharing again.
     
     https://youtu.be/PZRAbcE7aqE
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     :blobcatflower: (methyltheobromine@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:11:53 JST :blobcatflower:

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     @toiletpaper @kura @sun > In early April of 2003, the museum was looted. The lyre went missing, only to be found in pieces. The irreparably damaged gold and mother-of-pearl bull's head was subsequently discovered in the flooded basement vaults of Iraq's Central Bank. Looters stripped parts of the body of much of its gold and left the remains in a parking lot.
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     ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:17:55 JST ⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡

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     @lucy @kura @sun
     
     Yeah. The story of the making of that replica is incredible. I didn't share too much about it because I didn't want to inundate you guys with a bunch of historical trivia when you're probably more interested in talking about Linux and anime. lol
     
     Anyway there are a bunch of documentary videos about it, but this one below covers the bulk of it pretty well. That entire musical album is amazing. Every time I hear the one I posted above it sends chills down my spine and brings a tear to my eye.
     
     https://youtu.be/HW4K65CvWus
     
     PS. Fuck Zecharia Sitchen, Von Däniken, etc! Those assholes should have been shot on first sight.
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     meso repeated this.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:18:47 JST Sick Sun

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     @toiletpaper @lucy @kura I admit I was a fan of the 12th planet but you have to remember that I am old so a lot of stuff wasn't translated and there wasn't enough people around with the knowledge to dispute stuff he wrote
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 18:33:57 JST Dad

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     @sun @lucy @kura I know some of those names! I have played at least 2 Shin Megami Tensei games.
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