Inanna

Japanese: イナンナ（英語表記）Inanna

A Sumerian goddess. Some of her characteristics were inherited by the great Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar. Her husband was Dumuzi, the predecessor of Tammuz. Once, as the queen of heaven, she visited her sister Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld. However, in accordance with the laws of the underworld, as she passed through the seven gates, her magnificent clothes were stripped off one by one, and when she was brought naked before Ereshkigal, she was subjected to the "death gaze" of the gods of the underworld and became a corpse. With the intervention of the god Enki (→ Ea), Inanna was resurrected and was able to return to the upper world, but at that time, she handed over her husband Dumuzi to the messenger from the underworld who was accompanying her as her substitute (→ Descent to Hell).

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Japanese:

シュメールの女神。古代メソポタミアの大女神イシュタルにその性格の一部が受け継がれた。タンムズの前身をなすドゥムジを夫にもつ。天界の女王であった彼女は，あるとき死者の国の女王である姉のエレシュキガルを訪問したが，冥府の掟に従い，七つの門を過ぎる間に身に着けていたみごとな衣装を次々にはぎ取られ，裸にされてエレシュキガルの前に連れてこられたところを，冥府の神々の「死の視線」を浴びせられ，死体になった。エンキ神（→エア）の介入によってイナンナは復活し上界に帰ることができたが，彼女はその際，同行してきた冥府の使者に自分の身代わりとして夫のドゥムジを引き渡したという（→地獄下り）。

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