Ereshkigal
Ereshkigal | |
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Queen of the Underworld | |
Abode | Kur or Irkalla |
Personal information | |
Parents | Nanna and Ningal (implicitly, following the most common genealogy of Inanna) |
Siblings | Utu and Inanna (younger siblings according to Inanna's Descent) |
Consort | Ninazu, Gugalana, later Nergal |
Children | Nungal, Ninazu, Namtar (in only one text) |
Equivalents | |
Greek equivalent | Hecate (only in a late magical papyrus) |
Hurrian equivalent | Allani |
Hittite equivalent | Sun goddess of the Earth |
Hattian equivalent | Lelwani |
In Mesopotamian mythology, Ereshkigal (Sumerian: