Ereshkigal
queen of the great below
earthEreshkigal reigns alone over the land of no return, where the dead eat dust and dwell in feathered silence; to dream of her is to meet the grief you have hidden and let it, at last, be seen.
Fragments
Even the gods send messengers, never themselves, into her kingdom; only the boldest goddess ever knocked upon her door and lived to climb back out.
She sits behind seven gates in a house where light is clay and bread is ash, and when she weeps for the dead the whole dark earth trembles with her mourning.
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