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From: Book · Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen · 1987
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Sumerian ⟶ English a
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p. 206 | |
INANNA PLANS TO TAKE OVER HADES | |
1-3 | From the upper heaven she had her heart set on the netherworld, the goddess had from the upper heaven her heart set on the netherworld. Inanna had from the upper heaven her heart set on the netherworld. |
4-6 | My lady forsook heaven, forsook earth, went down into Hades. Inanna forsook heaven, forsook earth, went down into Hades. Lordship she forsook, queenship she forsook, went down into Hades. |
7-11 | In Uruk she forsook Eanna, went down into Hades. In Bad-Tibira she forsook Emushkalamma, went down into Hades; in Zabalam she forsook Giguna, went down into Hades; in Adab she forsook Eshara, went down into Hades; in Nippur she forsook Ebaragdurgara, went down into Hades; |
p. 207 | |
12-13 | In Kishi she forsook Hursag-kalamma, went down into Hades; in Akkade she forsook E-ulmash, went down into Hades. |
14-17 | . . . |
18-25 | . . . |
SHE PROVIDES AGAINST POSSIBLE FAILURE | |
26-28 | . . . |
p. 208 | |
p. 209 | |
p. 210 | |
INANNA SEEKS ENTRY INTO HADES | |
p. 211 | |
p. 212 | |
ERESHKIGAL DECIDES TO FACE HER | |
p. 213 | |
INANNA IS STRIPPED | |
p. 214 | |
p. 215 | |
p. 216 | |
p. 217 | |
p. 218 | |
ENKI PLANS TO TRICK ERESHKIGAL INTO MAKING A RASH PROMISE | |
p. 219 | |
p. 220 | |
THE RUSE SUCCEEDS | |
p. 221 | |
p. 222 | |
p. 223 | |
p. 224 | |
p. 225 | |
DUMUZI, FOR NOT SORROWING, IS DESIGNATED | |
p. 226 | |
DUMUZI ESCAPES | |
p. 227 | |
RECAPTURE AND SECOND ESCAPE | |
p. 228 | |
SECOND ESCAPE | |
p. 229 | |
p. 230 | |
p. 231 | |
DUMUZI CAPTURED IN FOLD | |
GESHTINANNA SEEKS HIM | |
INANNA'S EASEMENT OF TERM | |
p. 232 | |
Source(s) a Jacobsen, Harps, 205-232 launch . |
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OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. ""Inanna's Descent": English Translation by Thorkild P. R. Jacobsen." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 03 May. 2019, omnika.org/stable/131. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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