The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereskigal Jocelyn Evans Soul Exercises

Soul Exercises

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The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereskigal Jocelyn Evans Soul ExercisesThe Myth of Nergal and Erekigal, preserved in two versions, a Middle Babylonian one from Tell el Amarna and a much longer Standard Babylonian one probably composed in Assyria in the early first millennium BCE, tells the story of why and how Nergal, son of Ea, the god of wisdom, descended into the Netherworld by the ladders of heaven, fell in love with Erekigal, queen of the Netherworld, and eventually deposed her and usurped her throne. Like all