(Please read from the start)
>> This story should be handled very carefully. We know all the Sebettis and their warriors were called “children of the Sun”; this is how later generations thoughts they were all brothers and sisters. I don’t think they were biological siblings, at least not all of them (apart the royal family maybe).
The 7 judges of the underworld are most probably the Sebetti rulers here. It’s hard to explain or understand for now how one of the Sebetti rulers was judged by the 7 other rulers. Since she was a part of the 7….where the other 7 rulers come from? The King of kings is dead, murdered. And the Evil One is dead as well. So that leaves 4 other Sebetti rulers to play the role of judge since the Evil Lady is the accused. Where did they bring the number 7 then? There is something unclear here or a piece of the puzzle I haven’t gotten my hands on yet.
What is the Underworld? Where is the Underworld? This is another hard question to answer. There are many possibilities. One of them is rather strange and creepy. If I take into consideration the floating mountain from the tales of the Native American ThunderBirds, this makes that place the Upperworld, right? If that is the case, then it makes the earth = the LAND the Underworld, right? As in it’s the world that is UNDER the Upper one.
Another one is the theory of Hollow Earth. Well, as I just said, these are just a couple of the many possibilities out there. This is a door that I don’t want to open and I don’t want to go into this endless tunnel. This dig deserves a book of its own. It’s very deep, so I won’t be going there or I won’t be able to continue with my objectives.
Inanna’s vassal = Ninshubur did something or negotiated something to try to bring back Inanna from the Underworld. Instead of her, her husband was cast away there, for only 6 months in the end, after one of her “sisters” were sent to replace him for the other 6 months. Here, it’s terribly confusing. Was the Evil Lady supposed to die but her vassals intervened and instead of her getting hurt and die, the Evil One was hit instead? Was it some type of scenario where she was about to get shot and the Evil One stood in front of her and got shot in her place? Since it’s a tragic love story, I keep on wondering what really happened. But everything keeps on pointing us in the same direction = the Evil One died. But the rest, is unclear.
“Etymology
Inanna and Ishtar were originally separate, unrelated deities, but they were equated with each other during the reign of Sargon of Akkad and came to be regarded as effectively the same goddess under two different names. Inanna's name may derive from the Sumerian phrase nin-an-ak, meaning "Lady of Heaven", but the cuneiform sign for Inanna is not a ligature of the signs lady (Sumerian: nin; Cuneiform: SAL.TUG2) and sky (Sumerian: an; Cuneiform: AN). These difficulties led some early Assyriologists to suggest that Inanna may have originally been a Proto-Euphratean goddess, who was only later accepted into the Sumerian pantheon. This idea was supported by Inanna's youthfulness, as well as the fact that, unlike the other Sumerian divinities, she seems to have initially lacked a distinct sphere of responsibilities. The view that there was a Proto-Euphratean substrate language in Southern Iraq before Sumerian is not widely accepted by modern Assyriologists.”
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