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ERESHKIGAL

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Near Eastern Mythology

Pronounced: ay-RESH-kee-gahl, er-esh-KIG-ahl   [key]

Means "lady of the great earth" in Sumerian. In Sumerian and Babylonian mythology she was the violent goddess of death and the underworld.
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