Wrath of Ereshkigal by A-gnosis on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Damn, Ereshkigal is FUN!
Just stumbled upon the myth about the marriage between Nergal and Ereshkigal. For some reason, (there seems to be a lot of lines missing) the god Nergal wished to visit Ereshkigal in Erkalla (as the underworld was called). Ereshkigal was forbidden to leave her realm and join the parties of the other gods, so she was totally bored and sexually frustrated. Thus when Nergal arrived, she seduced him without hesitation and they spent the following six days in bed. But Nergal didn't want to stay in the underworld, so he tricked the gatekeeper to let him go. When Ereshkigal found out, she got all miserable and furious and sent her vizier to the gods with the message above. The goddess actually threatened to raise an army of zombies if Nergal didn't come back and had sex with her. That's just... WONDERFUL.

It reminds me of the Roman poem The Rape of Proserpine, where Hades (or Pluto as he was called by the Romans) complains about his dull life and threatens to open up the gates of his kingdom and let the dead mingle with the living, if he can't have Persephone (or Proserpine) for a wife.

Hehe, death gods... They have such a hard time getting themselves a spouse.