Talk:Ereshkigal

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This page has 2 stub notices at the bottom - is it really still a stub? Dreamingkat 03:45, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

One of the interesting facts about "Ereshkigal" or "Ereškigala" in an alternate spelling is that it is also used as the name of the mother of both Inanna and her elder sister, the queen of the Netherworld Ereshkigal, in "Inana's descent to the netr world". (Both the text and its translation are available at "The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature", http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/) iskender savasir 22 March 2005

Thanks... you know you can just add these things in yourself :-)

I did finally see this and add it though, with direct link to the relevant text.DreamGuy 15:51, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

This article is poorly written and confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.9.110.217 (talk) 19:48, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Infamous

Why does the caption define the relief as “infamous”? Goochelaar (talk) 14:45, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

I originally described the relief as infamous because the relief is highly controversial and there is a great scholarly deal of debate regarding who it is supposed to represent. Some scholars think it represents Inanna. Some think it represents Ereshkigal. Some even insist that it represents the demon Lilith. The image has also, unfortunately, become widely circulated on the internet in association with the pseudohistorical claims of the nineteenth-century writer Alexander Hislop. I have now removed the word "infamous" from the caption since you found the word so confusing. I assure you, I had no intention to sow any form of confusion when I wrote it. --Katolophyromai (talk) 21:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Hung on a hook vs. a stake

Samuel Noah Kramer's translation of the cuneiform states that Inanna was hung from a stake before receiving the food and water of life, I have changed the text to reflect this unless a different source is produced to state otherwise. Desdinova (talk) 22:15, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

I assume you are referring to Kramer's 1961 translation from his book Sumerian Mythology, which, in this particular instance, would appear to be outdated. Kramer and Wolkstein's 1983 translation in Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth reads, "Inanna was turned into a corpse, A rotting piece of meat, And was hung from a hook on the wall." The section in this article is cited to the more recent translation available on the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature website, which reads, "The afflicted woman was turned into a corpse. And the corpse was hung on a hook." I have read multiple sources which describe it as a meat hook. The "stake" interpretation seems to be an old one that is no longer supported by current scholarship. --Katolophyromai (talk) 22:50, 2 July 2017 (UTC)