Pagan Portals - Ishtar and Ereshkigal - Scott Irvine
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Ishtar and Ereshkigal are the daughters of the Moon God Sin and
sisters of the Sun God Shamash and members of a family of deities called
the Anunnaki who arrived from the heavens to the earth many thousands
of years ago. Ishtar, as Inanna, was the original goddess of love and
the forerunner to all of the fertility goddesses that followed.
Ereshkigal was the original ruler of the underworld and the goddess of
death. As the queens of heaven and the underworld, Ishtar and Ereshkigal
represent the opposing forces that allow life, death and rebirth to
occur in the world.