- To the Land
of No Return, the realm of Ereshkigal,
-
- Ishtar
(Astarte), the daughter of the
Moon, set her mind.
- To the dark
house, the abode of Irkalla,
- To the house
which none leave who have entered it,
- To the road
from which there is no way back,
- To the house
wherein the entrants are bereft of light,
- Where dust
is their fare and clay their food,
- Where they
see no light, residing in darkness,
- Where they
are clothed like birds, with wings for garments,
- And where
over door and bolt is spread dust.
-
- When Ishtar
reached the gate of the Land of No
Return (The Netherword or Hell),
- She said to
the gatekeeper:
- "O
gatekeeper, open thy gate,
- Open thy
gate so I may enter!
-
- If thou
openest not the gate so that I cannot enter,
- I will smash the door, I will shatter
the bolt,
- I will smash the
doorpost, I will move the doors,
- I will raise up the
dead eating the living,
- So that
the dead will outnumber the living."
-
- The
gatekeeper opened his mouth to speak,
- Saying to
exalted
Ishtar:
- "Stop, my
lady, do not throw it down!
- I will go
to announce thy name to Queen Ereshkigal."
- The
gatekeeper entered, saying to Ereshkigal
(Ishtar or Inanna's sister):
- "Behold,
they sister Ishtar is waiting at the gate,
- She who
upholds the great festivals,
- Who stirs up the
deep before Ea, the king."
-
- When
Ereshkigal heard this, her face turned pale like
a cut-down tamarisk,
- While her
lips turned dark like a bruised kuninu-reed.
- What drove
her heart to me? What impelled her spirit
hither?
- Lo, should I
drink water with the Anunnaki?
- Should I eat
clay
for bread, drink muddied water for beer?
- Should I
bemoan the men who left their wives behind?
- Should I
bemoan the maidens who were wretched from the
laps of their lovers?
- Or should I
bemoan the tender little one who was sent off
before his time?
- Go,
gatekeeper, open the gate for her,
- Treat her in
accordance with the ancient rules."
- Forth went
the gatekeeper to open the door for her:
- "Enter, my
lady, that Cutha may rejoice over thee,
- That the
palace of the Land of No Return may be glad at
they presence."
-
- When the first gate he had made her
enter,
- He stripped and took away
the great crown on her head.
- "Why, o
gatekeeper, didst thou take the great crown on
my head?"
- "Enter, my
lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of
the Underworld."
-
- When the second gate he had made her
enter,
- He
stripped and took away the pendants on her
ears.
- "Why, O
gatekeeper, didst thou take the pendants on my
ears?"
- "Enter, my
lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of
the Underworld."
-
- When the third gate he had made her
enter,
- He
stripped and took away the chains round her
neck.
- "Why, O
gatekeeper, didst thou take the chains round
my neck?"
- "Enter, my
lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of
the Underworld."
-
- When the fourth gate he had made her
enter,
- He
stripped and took away the ornaments on her
breast.
- "Why, O
gatekeeper, didst thou take the ornaments on
my breast?"
- "Enter, my
lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of
the Underworld."
-
- When the fifth gate he had made her
enter,
- He
stripped and took away the girdle of
birthstones on her hips.
- "Why, O
gatekeeper, didst thou take the girdle of
birthstones on my hips?"
- "Enter, my
lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of
the Underworld."
-
- When the sixth gate he had made her
enter,
- He
stripped and took away the clasps round her
hands and feet.
- "Why, O
gatekeeper, didst thou take the clasps round
my hands and feet?"
- "Enter, my
lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of
the Underworld."
-
- When the seventh gate he had made her
enter,
- He
stripped and took away the breechcloth
round her body.
- "Why, O
gatekeeper, didst thou take the breechcloth
round my body?"
- "Enter, my
lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of
the Underworld."
-
- As soon as
Ishtar had descended to the Land of No Return,
- Ereshkigal
saw her and burst out at her presence.
- Ishtar,
unreflecting, flew at her.
- Ereshkigal
opened her mouth to speak,
-
- "Go, Namtar,
lock her up in my palace!
- Release
against her the sixty miseries:
- Misery of
the eyes against her eyes,
- Misery of
the sides against her sides,
- Misery of
the heart against her heart,
- Misery of
the feet against her feet,
- Misery of
the head against her head -
- Against
every part of her, against her whole body!"
-
- After Lady
Ishtar had descended to the nether world,
- The bull springs not
upon the cow, the ass impregnates
not the jenny,
- In the
street the man impregnates not the
maiden.
- The man lies
in his own chamber, the maiden lies on her side.
- The
countenance of Papsukkal, the vizier of the
great gods,
- Was fallen,
his face was clouded
- He was clad
in mourning, long hair he wore.
-
- Forth went
Papsukkal before Ea, the king:
- "Ishtar has
gone down to the nether world, she has not come
up.
- Since Ishtar
has gone down to the Land of No Return,
- The bull
springs not upon the cow, the ass impregnates
not the jenny,
- In the
street the man impregnates not the maiden.
- The man lies
down in his own chamber,
- The maiden
lies down on her side."
-
- Ea in his
wise heart conceived an image,
- And created
Asushunamir, a eunuch:
- "Up,
Asushunamir, set thy face to the gate of the Land of No
Return:
- The seven gates of
the Land of No Return shall be opened
for thee.
- Ereshkigal
shall see thee and rejoice at thy presence.
- When her
heart has calmed, her mood is happy,
- Let her
utter the oath of the great gods.
- Then lift up thy head, paying mind to
the life-water bag
-
- (the
familiar spirit of the witch of Endor, the
nebel or harp and the vile man):
-
- "Pray, lady,
let them give me the life-water bag
- that water
therefrom I may drink."
- As soon as
Ereshkigal heard this,
- She smote
her thigh, bit her finger:
- "Thou didst
request of me a thing that should not be
requested.
- Come,
Asushunamir, I will curse thee with a mighty
curse!
- The food of
the city's gutters shall be thy food,
- The sewers
of the city shall be thy drink.
- The
threshold shall be thy habitation,
- The besotted
and the thirsty shall smite they cheek!"
-
- Ereshkigal
opened her mouth to speak,
- Saying these
words to Namtar, her vizier:
-
- "Up, Namtar,
knock at Egalgina,
- Adorn the
thresholds with the coral-stone,
- Bring forth
the Anunnaki, seated them on thrones of gold,
- Sprinkle Ishtar with the water of
life and take her from my presence!"
- Forth went
Namtar, knocked at Egalgina,
- Adorned the
thresholds with coral-stone,
- Brought
forth the Anunnaki, seated them on thrones of
gold,
- Sprinkled
Ishtar with the water of life and took her from
her presence.
-
- When through
the first gate he had made
her go out,
- He
returned to her the breechcloth for her body.
- When through
the second gate he had made
her go out,
- He
returned to her the clasps for her hands and
feet.
- When through
the third gate he had made
her go out,
- He
returned to her the birthstone girdle for her
hips.
- When through
the fourth gate he had made
her go out,
- He
returned to her the ornaments for her breasts.
- When through
the fifth gate he had made
her go out,
- He
returned to her the chains for her neck.
- When through
the sixth gate he had made
her go out,
- He
returned to her the pendants for her ears.
- When through
the seventh gate he had made
her go out,
- He
returned to her the great crown for her head.
- "If she
does not give thee her ransom price, bring her
back.
-
- As for Tammuz, the lover (and
son) of her youth,
- Wash him with pure water, anoint him with sweet oil:
- Clothe him
with a red garment,
- let him play on a flute of lapis.
-
- (Psalm 41
says that Judas would not triumph over Jesus.
This is the same musical rejoicing God
condemned in Numbers 10:7 for the assembly.
The bag of Judas is defined by the Greek as "a
bag for carrying the mouthpieces of wind
instruments." It is made up of two parts:
"speaking in tonges" and "of the world." The
musical children even tried to turn John the
Baptist and Jesus into courtesans)
-
- Let the courtesans turn his mood."
- When Belili
was stringing her jewelry,
- And her lap
was filled with "eye-stones,"
- On hearing
the sound of her brother,
Belili struck the jewelry on...
- So that the
"eye-stones" filled the...
-
- "My only
brother, bring no harm to me!
- On the day
when Tammuz comes up to me,
- When with
him the lapis flute and the carnelian ring come up to me,
- When with
him the wailing men and wailing women come up to me,
- May the
dead rise and smell the incense." (See Ezekiel
8:14)
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- Of the king of
Tyre the agent of Lucifer
(Sophia-Zoe) Ezekiel notes:
-
- Thou hast
been in Eden the garden of God; every precious
stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz,
and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the
jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the
carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in
thee in the day that thou wast created.
Eze.28:13
-
- The tabret
is the tambourine and the "pipe" is the Hebrew
neqeb which is like a
ring or "bezel for a gem." As pipes were
made of lapiz lazuli or other precious
stone there may be some
correlation.
-
- (You begin
to understand why religionists turn so vilely
violent when it is suggested that Jesus was not Tammuz or
Dionysus or one of the god's prostitutes. When
the pagan "gods" didn't serve the worshippers
it was not uncommon to murder them:
-
- But
whereunto shall I liken this generation? It
is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling
unto their fellows, Matthew 11:16
- And
saying, We have piped unto you, and ye
have not danced; we have mourned unto you,
and ye have not lamented. Matthew 11:17
-
- Marketplace religion was always know
as a prostitute attempt to do God's work
through secular, external means (Revelation
18)
-
- This, dear
friends, explains the form of worship which
Jesus said would be launched against the church
but it would not win. The goal of such fertility
rituals were always believed to
generate and regenerate new souls by forcing the
seekers to come to your temple rather than
selling all you own and going into all the world
to preach the gospel. You, instead, always have
something to sell them under the pretense that
it is inspired by God.
-
- And I say
also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon
this rock I will build my church; and the gates
of hell shall not
prevail against it. Matthew 16:18
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