Inshtar died once in the underworld. This is something that all the Anunnaki gods know.
Yinshtar knew exactly where the underworld was, and he knew even better who his sisters were.
The underworld is just a place with only blue-gray stones, blue Garula spirits, and weird gun thresholds. Other than that, there is nothing. It is desolate and terrifying, and it is also very cold. After Yinshtar returned from the underworld, he I wonder if my brain is broken, and there is no point in trying to turn that kind of place into my own territory.
As for Ereshkigal, my good sister.
That's a gloomy and perverse bastard!
Don't you just want to snatch her power and throne? She actually killed herself! He even hung himself up! ?
If it were not for her father-god, the Moon God Nanna had warned her not to provoke Ereshkigal again, and the Water God Enki had also advised her. In addition, she really did not want to die again. She was high and low——
...Although Yinshtar didn't want to admit it, she really couldn't do anything in front of Ereshkigal.
So she never mentioned it openly, and neither did the Anunnaki god. After all... this was the biggest scandal. For the Anunnaki, if it weren't for Yin Shi Tal is one of the Seven Lords of Destiny, and Enlil may even...
She gritted her teeth. Enkidu's awakening gave her a very bad feeling.
Why can that guy Ananu survive in the underworld?
She called her servant Shamhat and told her: "Go and take care of Kurgalu and Galatulu. I have important tasks to assign to them."
"I understand, my God."
...
"Anunnaki..."
The divine power in Ereshkigal's body was in an unstable state, and Ananu could feel it.
But he was a little speechless.
As the god of Hades, how do you empathize with me?
Ereshkigal seemed to notice Ananu's thoughts. She stood up and raised the sill of her gun.
"Key to Heaven, follow me."
The blue fire in the gun sill illuminated the path for Ereshkigal and Ananu, allowing them to see clearly ahead in the darkness.
Ananu had no idea what Ereshkigal was planning to do, but his instinct told him that he had better follow.
The two of them walked, probably walking downward for a day and a night. Neither Ereshkigal nor Ananu said a word, until Ereshkigal suddenly stopped.
She raised the gun in her hand, and her divine power was suddenly released.
call--
The depths of the underworld lit up.
Only then did Ananu notice that both sides of the road were covered with large and small gun sills, and there were blue flames swaying in the gun sills.
"You can feel it, those are souls."
Ereshkigal turned around and said to Ananu.
Ananu nodded.
He knew from the beginning that the gun threshold, just like its appearance, was a real cage, a cage used to imprison the soul.
How many guns are there here?
How many souls are imprisoned here?
Ananu could not count them.
"Every gun threshold here is made by me." Ereshkigal said to Ananu, while she was walking, "Every one of them is."
"It seems that Hades is also very busy." Ananu sighed.
Ereshkigal did not pay attention to Ananu's words. She continued to walk forward, talking as she walked.
"The underworld will corrode everything. Even the seven judges who are my masters have been turned into seven stone slabs."
"And what I want to show you is this."
At the end of the road, a particularly large gun threshold appeared.
The soul in the gun threshold is particularly bright and stronger than all other souls.
"Is this... a goddess?" Ananu felt the powerful power in the sleeping soul, and was extremely surprised, but then he realized, "Is this Gashtinanna?"
"It seems that you know a lot." Ereshkigal nodded.
"Yes, this is Gashtinanna, Inshtar's husband, and the sister of Dumuzi who has turned into a sheep."
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"Now, it's Gashtinanna's time to serve her sentence."
After Yinshtar designated Dumuzi as his scapegoat, Dumuzi was not without resistance. In order to escape the pursuit of the hounds of the underworld, he fled to the home of his sister Gashtinanna.
Gashtinanna felt pity for her brother and wanted to help him escape this fate of destruction, so she turned Dumuzi into a sheep.
But it is useless to turn into a sheep. Even if he has turned into a sheep, Dumuzi is still Dumuzi, the god representing agriculture, so he is still dragged into the underworld by the hounds.
Geshtinanna was so sad that she stopped the hounds of the underworld and asked them to take the message to the mistress of the underworld, Ereshkigal. She made it clear her plan and she was willing to go there in place of her brother. The underworld is imprisoned.
But Ereshkigal did not agree. The underworld has its own rules, and it is impossible to let Dumuzi go.
However, Gashtinanna did not achieve nothing.
She moved Ereshkigal with her true feelings, and in exchange for Dumuzi being free for half a year every year, the price was that during the half year Dumuzi was free, she had to come to the underworld to serve her sentence.
Dumuzi served half a year in prison and Gashtinanna served half a year in prison. This was the final result of Yinshtar's descent into the underworld.
Ananu was a little confused as to why Ereshkigal showed this to him. He looked at the mistress of the underworld with searching eyes, waiting for her answer.
Ereshkigal also understood, so she said, "This is what I want to express."
"Even gods will be imprisoned like this in the underworld."
"Besides me, there is no other life in the underworld. Even the other gods are dead. The children of Enlil are still working unconsciously."
"Celestial Key, can you understand this feeling? This is why I hate and hate the Anunnaki."
"I have been in the underworld since I was born, and I have never appeared on the ground for even a second."
Ereshkigal's voice sounded a little aggrieved and angry.
"The underworld is the only thing I have, the only thing. Even if there is nothing here except the gun threshold, this place is my home. Every gun threshold here to imprison the soul is made by me, which is worth hundreds of millions." indivual."
"However, there are still gods like Nergal and Inshtar who try to take away the only thing I have."
She finally took off her hood and looked at Ananu with her beautiful eyes, her expression cold.
"This is what I want to say to you, what I want to express, Key to the Sky."
