sources: SRC_DESCENT_ISHTAR

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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SRC_DESCENT_ISHTAR The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld (Akkadian), trans. S. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford University Press, 2000)   primary text Mesopotamian netherworld (Irkalla/Kur), its gates, and Ereshkigal's rule

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