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** Inanna anticipates problems, and instructs her [[Sidekick sukkal]] Ninshubur what to do. Ninshubur and another deity end up going to rescue Inanna.
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* VillainProtagonist: Inanna breaks through her own sister's house, casually threatens a ZombieApocalypse, causes biological reproduction to cease altogether in her absence and ultimately wants domination over all three realms.
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* VillainProtagonist: Inanna breaks through assaults her sister in her own sister's house, home, casually threatens a ZombieApocalypse, causes biological reproduction to cease altogether in her absence (admittedly, more irresponsibility on her part than outright villainy, as its caused by her being dead or disabled depending on version) and ultimately wants domination over all three realms.
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* {{Yandere}}: Inanna has her husband, Tammuz/Dumuzid, dragged off to the Underworld for failing to mourn for her while she was dead (Though, this is arguably a case of ValuesDissonance, as both the Sumerians and Akkadians considered proper mourning rites to be critically important for allowing the dead to rest. The absence of which was thought to turn the dead into demons who would haunt the living and curse them with plagues). [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] even lists this as one of her defining character traits when refusing her affections, even citing what she did to Tammuz as an example.
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* {{Yandere}}: Inanna has her husband, Tammuz/Dumuzid, dragged off to the Underworld for failing to mourn for her while she was dead (Though, (though, this is arguably a case of ValuesDissonance, as both the Sumerians and Akkadians considered proper mourning rites to be critically important critical for allowing the dead to rest. The absence of which was thought to rest, lest they turn the dead into demons who would haunt the living and curse them with plagues). [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] even lists this as one of her defining character traits when refusing her affections, even citing what she did to Tammuz as an example.
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* {{Yandere}}: Inanna has her husband, Tammuz/Dumuzid, dragged off to the Underworld for failing to mourn for her while she was dead.dead (Though, this is arguably a case of ValuesDissonance, as both the Sumerians and Akkadians considered proper mourning rites to be critically important for allowing the dead to rest. The absence of which was thought to turn the dead into demons who would haunt the living and curse them with plagues). [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] even lists this as one of her defining character traits when refusing her affections, even citing what she did to Tammuz as an example.
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* MirrorCharacter: Inanna and Ereshkigal. This is further supported by the interesting thematic relation of the husbands of both women dying in the story as bookends, as well as the link-up between this story and the story where Gilgamesh kills Inanna's bull of heaven (the exact same bull that is the husband of Ereshkigal).
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* NotSoDifferent: Inanna and Ereshkigal. In fact, Ereshkigal might actually be a DarkerAndEdgier {{Expy}} of Inanna. This is further supported by the interesting thematic relation of the husbands of both women dying in the story as bookends, as well as the link-up between this story and the story where Gilgamesh kills Inanna's bull of heaven (the exact same bull that is the husband of Ereshkigal).
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* FliesEqualsEvil: Averted. A fly helps Inanna, Geshtinanna, and Sirtur locate Dumuzid's location in the underworld.
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* CrazyPrepared: Inanna anticipates problems, and instructs her priestess exactly what to do.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Ereshkigal seems mostly portrayed this way.
* DeathGlare: Literally ''causes'' death.
* EvilTwin: Though it is not entirely clear which one is the ''evil'' one. See below.
* FauxActionGirl: Inanna. She has to be rescued by Ninshubur and Enki. However, [[GuileHero this may have been a gambit of sorts]]. She had already sent out word of her demise ahead of time to her most powerful family members, knowing that no one who was in the underworld could break free on their own.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Ereshkigal seems mostly portrayed this way.
* DeathGlare: Literally ''causes'' death.
* EvilTwin: Though it is not entirely clear which one is the ''evil'' one. See below.
* FauxActionGirl: Inanna. She has to be rescued by Ninshubur and Enki. However, [[GuileHero this may have been a gambit of sorts]]. She had already sent out word of her demise ahead of time to her most powerful family members, knowing that no one who was in the underworld could break free on their own.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Inanna and Ereshkigal. However, some have suggested that the two are actually one person.
* HerosJourney: One of the stories Campbell used to argue the existence of the monomyth, actually.
* HerosJourney: One of the stories Campbell used to argue the existence of the monomyth, actually.
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* JerkassGods: A staple of Myth/MesopotamianMythology.
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* ToHellAndBack: One of the oldest stories of this type; possibly even ''the'' UrExample.
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An important piece of Myth/MesopotamianMythology, and one Myth/MesopotamianMythology. One of the oldest written stories. stories in existence, scholars have dated it to as early as [[OlderThanDirt the 22nd century BCE]]. The story is about the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar) going to visit her sister (or possibly (and possible alter-ego) Ereshkigal.Ereshkigal and other gods' attempt to bring her back when she fails to return on time. The tale was later borrowed by the Akkadians, who changed some of the figures' names but otherwise kept everything identical as the Sumerian version.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Inanna is married to Dumuzi, but also has the goddess Ninshubur as her consort.
* BackFromTheDead: Inanna, and later Dumuzi.
* BackFromTheDead: Inanna, and later Dumuzi.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Inanna is married to Dumuzi, Dumuzid, but also has the goddess Ninshubur as her consort.
* BackFromTheDead:Inanna, and Inanna. Dumuzid is later Dumuzi.allowed to leave the Underworld as per Inanna's request, but only for half a year; the other half, he has to go back.
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* {{Expy}}: Ereshkigal is a DarkerAndEdgier version of her younger sister, Inanna. Some scholars believe they were at one point two aspects of the same goddess before becoming separate entities.
* FauxActionGirl: Inanna. [[spoiler: She has to be rescued by her priestess and a male deity. However, [[GuileHero this may have been a gambit of sorts]]. She had already sent out word of her demise ahead of time to her most powerful family members, knowing that no one who was in the underworld could break free on their own.]]
* GenderFlip: In later retellings of the myth, Ninshubur was turned into a male god, to [[HeteronormativeCrusader remove homosexual context from the myth]].
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry
* FauxActionGirl: Inanna. [[spoiler: She has to be rescued by her priestess and a male deity. However, [[GuileHero this may have been a gambit of sorts]]. She had already sent out word of her demise ahead of time to her most powerful family members, knowing that no one who was in the underworld could break free on their own.]]
* GenderFlip: In later retellings of the myth, Ninshubur was turned into a male god, to [[HeteronormativeCrusader remove homosexual context from the myth]].
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry
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* {{Expy}}: FauxActionGirl: Inanna. She has to be rescued by Ninshubur and Enki. However, [[GuileHero this may have been a gambit of sorts]]. She had already sent out word of her demise ahead of time to her most powerful family members, knowing that no one who was in the underworld could break free on their own.
* FliesEqualsEvil: Averted. A fly helps Inanna, Geshtinanna, and Sirtur locate Dumuzid's location in the underworld.
* {{Foil}}: Ereshkigal is a DarkerAndEdgier version of her younger sister, Inanna. Some scholars believe they were at one point two aspects of the same goddess before becoming separate entities.
* FauxActionGirl: Inanna. [[spoiler: She has to be rescued by her priestess and a male deity. However, [[GuileHero this may have been a gambit of sorts]]. She had already sent out word of her demise ahead of time to her most powerful family members, knowing that no one who was in the underworld could break free on their own.]]
* GenderFlip: In later retellings the Akkadian version of the myth, tale, Ninshubur was turned into a male god, Papsukkal, to [[HeteronormativeCrusader remove homosexual context from the myth]].
*TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalryTheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Inanna and Ereshkigal. However, some have suggested that the two are actually one person.
* FliesEqualsEvil: Averted. A fly helps Inanna, Geshtinanna, and Sirtur locate Dumuzid's location in the underworld.
* {{Foil}}: Ereshkigal is a DarkerAndEdgier version of her younger sister, Inanna. Some scholars believe they were at one point two aspects of the same goddess before becoming separate entities.
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* ILied: Inanna clearly was ''not'' there for the purpose of Gugalana's funerary rites. [[spoiler: She was there to nab Ereshkigal's underworld powers in the same way she grabbed Enki's ''me''.]]
* JerkassGods: A staple of Myth/MesopotamianMythology
* JustSoStory: Explains why we have winter and summer. [[spoiler:Inanna, the fertility goddess, lets everything go dormant when her beloved husband is down in the Underworld, and lets things grow in the summer when he's back and she's happy.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Inanna loses her husband for half the year because she tried to steal Ereshkigal's husband Gugalana in ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' [[spoiler: only for him to get killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu]] and tried to steal Ereshkigal's power.
* JerkassGods: A staple of Myth/MesopotamianMythology
* JustSoStory: Explains why we have winter and summer. [[spoiler:Inanna, the fertility goddess, lets everything go dormant when her beloved husband is down in the Underworld, and lets things grow in the summer when he's back and she's happy.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Inanna loses her husband for half the year because she tried to steal Ereshkigal's husband Gugalana in ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' [[spoiler: only for him to get killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu]] and tried to steal Ereshkigal's power.
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* ILied: Inanna clearly was ''not'' there for the purpose of Gugalana's funerary rites. [[spoiler: She was there to nab Ereshkigal's underworld powers in the same way she grabbed Enki's ''me''.]]
''me''.
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Myth/MesopotamianMythology.
* JustSoStory: Explains why we have winter and summer.[[spoiler:Inanna, Inanna, the fertility goddess, lets everything go dormant when her beloved husband is down in the Underworld, and lets things grow in the summer when he's back and she's happy.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Inanna loses her husband for half the year because she tried to steal Ereshkigal's husband Gugalana in ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''[[spoiler: only for him to get killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu]] Enkidu and tried to steal Ereshkigal's power.
* JerkassGods: A staple of
* JustSoStory: Explains why we have winter and summer.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Inanna loses her husband for half the year because she tried to steal Ereshkigal's husband Gugalana in ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''
* TheMourningAfter: Inanna's mourning for Dumuzid/Tammuz for six months every year, which explains the cycle of summer/winter. The act eventually became a tradition among some Middle Easterners for quite some time, not just the Sumerians and Akkadians but also later peoples like the Arameans, Canaanites, and Arabs. Notably, it is described in the Literature/BookOfEzekiel (c. 6th century BCE) and it was borrowed by the Greeks, whose equivalent of Tammuz was Adonis, the consort of Inanna's counterpart Aphrodite. According to eyewitness accounts, the Mourning for Tammuz survived in Kurdistan until as late as the 18th century CE.
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* NiceGuy: Enki, who helps Inanna, despite her earlier stealing his holy me(powers/laws), [[spoiler: and the fact she has gone to the underworld nab Ereshkigal's powers in the same way she grabbed Enki's ''me'']]. Enki in general is the TokenGoodTeammate [[JerkassGods among gods]].
** NiceGirl: Ninshubur, who is [[UndyingLoyalty very loyal]] to Inanna, and is one of the only really positive characters in this myth, along with Enki.
** NiceGirl: Ninshubur, who is [[UndyingLoyalty very loyal]] to Inanna, and is one of the only really positive characters in this myth, along with Enki.
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* NiceGuy: NiceGuy:
** Enki, who helps Inanna, despite her earlier stealing his holy me(powers/laws),[[spoiler: and the fact she has gone to the underworld nab Ereshkigal's powers in the same way she grabbed Enki's ''me'']]. ''me''. Enki in general is the TokenGoodTeammate [[JerkassGods JerkassGods among gods]].
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**NiceGirl: Ninshubur, who is [[UndyingLoyalty very loyal]] to Inanna, and is one of the only really positive characters in this myth, along with Enki.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The closest approximation is the Hollows of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fame.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The closest approximation When Inanna is escaping from the Hollows of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fame.underworld, Ereshkigal sends demons called ''galla'' to pursue her, as she insists that someone from the living world must replace Inanna if she were to leave.
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* {{Rescue}}: Inanna anticipates problems, and instructs her priestess what to do. The priestess and another deity end up going to rescue Inanna.
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** Inanna anticipates problems, and instructs her priestess what to do. The priestess and another deity end up going to rescueInanna.Inanna.
** Later, after she comes to regret her decision to send Dumuzid in place of herself, she decrees that he will spend half a year with her in Heaven while his sister Geshtinanna takes his place, while the opposite will be true the other half of the year.
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** Inanna anticipates problems, and instructs her priestess what to do. The priestess and another deity end up going to rescue
** Later, after she comes to regret her decision to send Dumuzid in place of herself, she decrees that he will spend half a year with her in Heaven while his sister Geshtinanna takes his place, while the opposite will be true the other half of the year.
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* SpinOff: Takes place just after Gilgamesh and his friend kill [[LivingMacGuffin Gugalana (The Bull of Heaven)]] in ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', but is considered its own separate story.
* TakeMeInstead: When Dumuzi is sent to the Underworld in Inanna's place, his sister begs Inanna to let her go instead.
* TakeMeInstead: When Dumuzi is sent to the Underworld in Inanna's place, his sister begs Inanna to let her go instead.
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* SpinOff: Takes place just after Gilgamesh and his friend kill [[LivingMacGuffin Gugalana (The Bull of Heaven)]] in ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', but is considered its own separate story.
story. Note that the earliest surviving copy of ''Descent'' is older than ''Epic'' (the latter is an amalgamation of several stories that are contemporary with ''Descent'', but was compiled during the later Babylonian period).
* TakeMeInstead: WhenDumuzi Dumuzid is sent to the Underworld in Inanna's place, his sister sister, Geshtinanna, begs Inanna to let her go instead.instead. She refuses, but after coming to regret her decision, has Geshtinanna replace Dumuzid in the underworld for half a year.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Dumuzi gets one of these for ''not'' saliently mourning his wife.
* {{Yandere}}: Inanna has her husband, Tammuz/Dumuzid, dragged off to the Underworld for failing to mourn for her while she was dead. [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] even lists this as one of her defining character traits when refusing her affections, even citing what she did to Tammuz as an example. [[note]]To quote him,: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar#Ishtar_in_the_Epic_of_Gilgamesh "There was Tammuz, the lover of your youth, for him you decreed wailing, year after year."]][[/note]] Which [[EpilepticTrees doesn't quite make sense if this myth is set after]] ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''.
* {{Yandere}}: Inanna has her husband, Tammuz/Dumuzid, dragged off to the Underworld for failing to mourn for her while she was dead. [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] even lists this as one of her defining character traits when refusing her affections, even citing what she did to Tammuz as an example. [[note]]To quote him,: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar#Ishtar_in_the_Epic_of_Gilgamesh "There was Tammuz, the lover of your youth, for him you decreed wailing, year after year."]][[/note]] Which [[EpilepticTrees doesn't quite make sense if this myth is set after]] ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Dumuzi Dumuzid gets one of these for ''not'' saliently mourning his wife.
* {{Yandere}}: Inanna has her husband, Tammuz/Dumuzid, dragged off to the Underworld for failing to mourn for her while she was dead. [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] even lists this as one of her defining character traits when refusing her affections, even citing what she did to Tammuz as anexample. [[note]]To quote him,: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar#Ishtar_in_the_Epic_of_Gilgamesh "There example.
-->"There was Tammuz, the lover of your youth, for him you decreed wailing, year after year."]][[/note]] Which [[EpilepticTrees doesn't quite make sense if this myth is set after]] ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''."
* {{Yandere}}: Inanna has her husband, Tammuz/Dumuzid, dragged off to the Underworld for failing to mourn for her while she was dead. [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] even lists this as one of her defining character traits when refusing her affections, even citing what she did to Tammuz as an
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An important piece of Myth/MesopotamianMythology, and one of the oldest written stories. The story is about the goddess Inanna (later known as [[IHaveManyNames Ishtar]]) Ishtar) going to visit her sister (or possibly alter-ego) Ereshkigal.
