Nergal & Ereshkigal - An Akkadian Love Story from the Underworld
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- An introduction to ancient Mesopotamian beliefs about ghosts and the underworld, followed by the myth of Nergal and Ereshkigal. If you want to skip the educational information and go straight to the story, it begins at the 8:00 minute mark.
This production was created by April Lynn Downey, founder of Phoenix Feather Books & Curios (www.phoenixfeatherbooks.com) and Journals of Tales.
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Thank you for bringing these stories to life. These ancient mesopotamian/Akkadian myths are the root of all ancient stories and myths.. Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and on even many of the old testament Bible stories are obviously borrowed from ancient mesopotamia. I am so happy I found your channel..
Thank you! :)
I find interesting that Ereshkigal and Ishtar in different myths, talk about “raising the dead so they out number the living”
This is a FANTASTICALLY in depth telling of this! I appreciate the way you contextualized it by describing the politics of the time. Thank you for this! 😊
Thank you so much! :) If you like this sort of thing, check out my channel; among other topics, I've also done the Babylonian creation epic and the Canaanite Baal myth. Have a great day!
Ereshkigal is so synonymous with Persephone it’s crazy but in reverse
A lot of scholarly time and effort has been put into the history of myths and trying to match migration patterns to gain insight into the origins and theme of these myths.
It’s tough but we must look at it from the lease that Ishtar and her sister ereshkigal and the same being but different aspects. Literally when Venus enters Scorpio vs her own sign opposite in Taurus 😊
These pagan mythologies from ancient times were all connected by the original Sumerian mythologies. And that mythology was inspired by the Ubaidians aka the Proto Euphrateans, the prehistoric peoples of the Euphrates. Greco-Roman, Hindu and even Norse mythologies were all inspired by these prehistoric cultures. Christianity, Judaism and Islamism (Abrahamic religions) were also inspired by these cultures, this is highly evident in much of the Old Testament, especially Genesis. If we look into who Abraham really was, we find that he was from Ur of the Chaldeans. His father Terah was a Babylonian high priest. The proof is there, if we connect the dots, some won't because they don't want to see the truth. And, they don't like to accept the fact that they've believed a lie their entire life. ✌😄
Way BETTER Love Story than Twilight
funny, but true!
Fascinating and beautiful. I had not read this before, and I've done a lot of research in Babylonian and Sumerian myth and beliefs.
As a retired Counselor, I see Erishkigal's behavior as parallel to that of many sex addicts who had been neglected or lonely as children - "Since I was a little girl ect" describing how she had not laughed or played, a life of loneliness and lack of stimulation. And she ended up in a place even lonelier. I have great compassion for Erishkigal and understand her better.
"Holy Erishkigal, I sing your praises".
Thank you, Dr. Downey. Love the sound effects and pacing of your presentation. Thank your your high quality visual presentation of these lusty deities.
Thank you for your support and encouragement! :) Although, I must admit I am not a Dr. - yet! I have my master's and someday if I can afford it, I might get my PhD. Or another, related masters. I always loved school!
Ninkigal and Nergal were bound together by the gods, therefore Nergal could travel between the worlds below and above.
He had obligations to fulfill in both realms and can only spend half of the year in either realm.
So it is written . Zi Dingir ANNA, Kanpa! Zi Dingir KIA, Kanpa!
I remember hearing this story back in high school. It was so interesting to listen to. Nearly 7 years pass by after hearing it, I take a couple DNA tests and find out I have Mediterranean ancestry from different countries and part of it is from Iraq. Maybe that is why I was so interested and fascinated by it.
I love looking into family history! Turns out I'm strongly Pennsylvania Dutch, with my ancestors coming to Pennsylvania 300 years ago, mostly from South West Germany and northern Switzerland
That was a good telling! I'm excited to see what else you've done.
Fabulous ancient Mesopotamian tale! Thank you for the upload.
Subscribed.
Thank you much! 😊
Loved it🐉🥰
Thank you!
Very good.
Thank you! :)
At 13:30 what is the bread and water of the Annunaki? This is similar to the story of Adapa when he was offered bread and water from Anu to become like the gods.
I don't know specifically what they were supposed to be but you are absolutely right about the re-occurring theme - which appears in other religions as well. Nice observation! Think about Adam and Eve and the trees of life and knowledge. Or, part-taking in the "blood and flesh of Christ" for the Eucharist. Or, the Hades and Persephone myth from Greece, where Persephone eats the pomegranate seeds and becomes beholden to the underworld. Today we tend to see religion as static and dogmatic, but in ancient times, ideas and stories were passed around from culture to culture and through time and were adapted.
@@AprilLynnDowney do you think the Annunaki where real beings who existed? Who ever they where they had such an effect on our world that their legends, and symbols got retold and reshaped for thousands of years after they arrived. I realized the Caduceus staff symbol used by the hospital is not a Greek invention but was actually originated with Ningishzidda. He was with Annu in the Adapa myth along side Dumuzi.
6:22 in greek mythology Thebes is also described as having 7 gates, is there any correlation between these?
I am not sure specifically, but 7 was considered a divine number in various cultures across the globe
I am akkidin Assyrian thank you
Congrats! Fantastic 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Thank you!! :)
18:15 Ereshkigal can create a zombie-apocalypse?
Certainly sounds like it!
I think version where Ereshkigal wants to kill Nergal (and he knows about that) and he enters Ereshkigal´s throne-room, pulls her down from the throne and wants to kill her with his ax until Ereshkigal ask him to not to do that and if he don ´t do it she will marry him and they can rule underworld together, is better.
7 days of love-making vs 7 days of creation....interesting.
Just wondering,; after reading,learning and telling these myths,what do you actually believe? Is there a caring god like in the books or wild,selfish,careless gods like in the myths?
To be honest, I don't really believe either exactly. I tend to feel like if there is a God, all of creation is sort of an experiment to see what happens. Or maybe, "God" is the universe. Or perhaps, the universe is a way of God defining itself, the same way we can define a shape with negative space.... how about you?
@@AprilLynnDowney Rather than 'what we believe',the problem is 'what we are' .
As long as circumstances (feeding,housing,coupling) are convenient,we are assuming that we are humans. But in fact,without any of these circumstances, we're only 'evil-based' - engineered - 'thinking-animals'.
So, 'being a human' is just a 'concept' which books,religions and doctrins push us to be..and in this story,there has to be an 'unseen-unknown-ungendered' being to fear and stop these evil-based thinking-animals which also brings us another concept..a 'god'!
If you would ask me not a god but a 'creator',i can easily tell you it's 'Earth and Water'!
Wish i could tell you the whole story but it would take forever..
@@custommoto-magazine549 to go on with that fascinating story I Want To Know How It Ends
The one holding him back is about to be moved. Were very very close ✝
Am I the only one that finds this story smiliar to Medusa and Perseus?
I'm not overly familiar with that one; I'll have to look it up!
Well, isn't this is long before the Greeks
@@Johanna-qv7iw Of course! People don't forget stories.
In what way? I dont find many similarities at all.
6:14
I know its juvenile but you made me laugh a few times because of the name of the Goddess Kakka. In French, the word shit is ''Caca'' and sounds exactly like that. Also that part 11:54 when Ereshkigal has been in the bath and put on fine dress and allow you to glimpse her body you must not do what man and woman do... Let's be honest there was no way this wasn't happening...
Lol
Please translate in Bangla
Unfortunately, I do not know that language.
How can you show all these complicated, disassociated tablets while saying nothing of them, and talk about something else? Boo!..