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View Name: Ereshkigal
ERESHKIGAL
Gender:
Feminine
Usage:
Near Eastern Mythology
Pronounced:
ay-RESH-kee-gahl, er-esh-KIG-ahl
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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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