Ishtar and the Gods

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• Descent of the Goddess Ishtar — M. Jastrow — The Babylonian myth of Ishtar's descent to the underworld, from M. Jastrow's 1915 translation of the cuneiform tablets.
• The Descent of Ishtar — The Akkadian myth of Ishtar's descent through seven gates to the Underworld — stripped, imprisoned, and restored by the waters of life.
• The Syncretistic Hymn to Nanaya — A bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian hymn from the library of Ashurbanipal in which the goddess Nanaya declares herself identical to every major goddess across the cities of Mesopotamia.