Mention of my girl Ninshubur! Ready, I consider myself well served and satisfied, or so I would say, but you can't put so many details of Mesopotamian mythology on a silver platter and expect me not to do anything with them:
Let's start by making Ereshkigal Inanna's adoptive sister, a bold decision. It is also a very clever choice as it reconciles that statement in the myth of the Descent, the lack of a genealogy for the Queen of the Underworld and texts where they refer to Inanna as the firstborn of her parents, but I still know from experience that is the least popular.
Did I just read a reference to the poem The Death of Gilgamesh? A pleasant surprise, because it's one of my favorites but I rarely (if ever) see modern versions use it as a reference, I suppose that the fact that Gilgamesh becomes a judge of the underworld after death may be at odds with the themes of mortality from the much more popular Epic.
{"Enlil?" Ritsuka asked. "I thought Marduk killed Tiamat."}
Now from that particular line, I'm not surprised that you opt for the theogony of Enuma Elish and maybe the decision to place Enlil instead of Marduk is to maintain consistency, but a part of me allowed itself to get excited that Enmesharra the Enlil's evil uncle is somehow present, don't listen to me, I just think that having a final boss with a sun instead of a face would be cool.
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arbolkauri on Chapter 8 Tue 30 Sep 2025 07:56AM UTC
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