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Ishtar's descent could have ended another way.
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Beautiful and vivid and fierce. Captures so much of what I love about the Sumerian afterlife, and with fantastically rich characterizations.
All these things came to Ishtar as her due. Hers were the couplings, the swollen bellies, the boughs heavy with fragrant fruit. Under her regard, the land prospered.
Yet Ishtar was not content. Night after night, from the dark house in the great city, she heard the laments of her sister Ereshkigal, queen of the underworld. Sweet was Ereshkigal's voice, like the mourning of birds. She sang of men forced to say farewell to their sweethearts, of women wrenched from their lovers' laps, of children torn untimely from their mothers.
Night after night, Ishtar heard her sister's voice. -
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Ishtar/Ereshkigal femslash