Ishtar died once in the underworld. This is something that all the Anunnaki gods know.
Ishtar knew exactly where the underworld was, and she knew even better who her sisters were.
The underworld is just a place with only blue-gray stones, blue Galula spirits, and weird gun thresholds. Other than that, there is nothing. It is desolate, terrifying, and very cold. After Ishtar returned from the underworld,
I wonder if my brain is broken, and trying to turn that kind of place into my own territory is useless.
As for Ereshkigal, my good sister.
That's a gloomy and perverse bastard!
Didn’t he just want to snatch her power and throne? She actually killed herself! And even hung herself up!?
If it were not for her father-god, the Moon God Nanna had warned her not to provoke Ereshkigal again, and the Water God Enki had also advised her. In addition, she really did not want to die again, so she -
...Although Ishtar didn't want to admit it, she really couldn't do anything in front of Ereshkigal.
So she never mentioned it openly, and neither did the Anunnaki god. After all... this was the biggest scandal. For the Anunnaki, if it weren't for Ish
Tal is one of the Seven Lords of Destiny, and Enlil may even...
She gritted her teeth. Enkidu's awakening gave her a very bad feeling.
How can that guy Ananu...how can he survive in the underworld?
She called her servant Shamhat and told her: "Go and take care of Kurgalu and Galatulu. I have important tasks to assign to them."
"I understand, my God."
...
"Anunnaki..."
The divine power in Ereshkigal's body was in an unstable state, and Ananu could feel it.
But he was a little speechless.
As the god of Hades, how do you empathize with me?
Ereshkigal seemed to notice Ananu's thoughts. She stood up and raised the sill of her gun.
"Key to Heaven, follow me."
The blue fire in the gun sill illuminated the path for Ereshkigal and Ananu, allowing them to see clearly ahead in the darkness.
Ananu didn't know what Ereshkigal was planning to do, but his instinct told him that he had better follow him.
The two of them walked, probably walking downward for a day and a night. Neither Ereshkigal nor Ananu said a word, until Ereshkigal suddenly stopped walking.
She raised the gun in her hand, and her divine power was suddenly released.
call--
The depths of the underworld lit up.
Only then did Ananu notice that both sides of the road were covered with large and small gun thresholds, and in the gun thresholds, there were blue flames swaying.
"You can feel it, those are souls."
Ereshkigal turned around and said to Ananu.
Ananu nodded.
He knew from the beginning that the gun threshold, just like its appearance, was a real cage, a cage used to imprison the soul.
How many guns are there here?
How many souls are imprisoned here?
Ananu has countless numbers.
"Every gun sill here is made by me." Ereshkigal said to Ananu, she walked, "Every one of them is."
"It seems that Hades is also very busy." Ananu sighed.
Ereshkigal didn't pay attention to Ananu's words. She continued to walk forward, talking as she walked.
"The underworld will corrode everything. Even the seven judges who are my masters have been turned into seven stone slabs."
"And what I want to show you is this."
At the end of the road, there was an extremely large gun threshold.
The soul in the gun threshold is particularly bright and stronger than all other souls.
"Is this...a goddess?" Ananu felt the powerful power in the sleeping soul, and was extremely surprised, but then he realized, "Is this Gashtinanna?"
"It seems that you know a lot." Ereshkigal nodded.
"Yes, this is Geshtinanna, Ishtar's husband, and the sister of Dumuzi who has turned into a sheep."
"Now, it's Gashtinanna's time to serve her sentence."
After Ishtar designated Dumuzi as his scapegoat, Dumuzi was not without resistance. In order to escape the pursuit of the hounds of the underworld, he fled to the home of his sister Gashtinanna.
Gashtinanna felt pity for her brother and wanted to help him escape this fate of destruction, so she turned Dumuzi into a sheep.
But it is useless to turn into a sheep. Even if he has turned into a sheep, Dumuzi is still Dumuzi, the god representing agriculture, so he is still dragged into the underworld by the hounds.
Geshtinanna was so sad that she stopped the hounds of the underworld and asked them to take the message to the mistress of the underworld, Ereshkigal. She made it clear her plan and she was willing to go there in place of her brother.
The underworld is imprisoned.
But Ereshkigal did not agree. The underworld has its own rules, and it is impossible to let Dumuzi go.
However, Gashtinanna did not achieve nothing.
She moved Ereshkigal with her true feelings, and in exchange for Dumuzi being free for half a year every year, the price was that during the half year Dumuzi was free, she had to come to the underworld to serve her sentence.
Dumuzi served half a year in prison and Gashtinanna served half a year. This was the final result of Ishtar going to the underworld.
Ananu was a little confused as to why Ereshkigal showed this to him. He looked at the mistress of the underworld with searching eyes, waiting for her answer.
Ereshkigal also understood, so she said: "This is what I want to express."
"Even gods will be imprisoned like this in the underworld."
"Besides me, there is no other life in the underworld. Even the other gods are dead. The children of Enlil are still working unconsciously."
"Key of the Sky, can you understand this feeling? This is the reason why I hate and hate the Anunnaki."
"I have been in the underworld since I was born, and I have never appeared on the ground for even a second."
Ereshkigal's voice sounded a little aggrieved and angry.
"The underworld is the only thing I have, the only thing. Even if there is nothing here except the gun threshold, this place is my home. Every gun threshold here used to imprison the soul is made by me. It costs hundreds of millions."
indivual."
"Yet there are still gods like Nergal and Ishtar who try to take away the only thing I have."
She finally took off her hood and looked at Ananu with her beautiful eyes, her expression cold.
"This is what I want to say to you, what I want to express, Key to the Sky."