Never Truly Hers: Ereškigal’s Dowry and the Rulership of the Netherworld

@article{Gadotti2020NeverTH,  title={Never Truly Hers: Ere{\vs}kigal’s Dowry and the Rulership of the Netherworld},  author={Alhena Gadotti},  journal={Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions},  year={2020},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:225667868}}
This paper considers the mythological tale Nergal and Ereškigal in an attempt to investigate the nature of Ereškigal’s dominion over the Mesopotamian Realm of the Dead. By using other Mesopotamian literary composition as well as Near Eastern law, the paper demonstrates that Ereškigal never relinquished her power over the Netherworld to Nergal because such a power was never hers to lose. 

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