ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: GIR₃
Values: er₉, gir₃, g̃ir₃, g̃iri₃, šakkan₂

Inana's descent to the nether world (c.1.4.1), line c141.193

me	kur-ra	me	al	nu-di-da	sa₂	bi₂-in-dug₄-ga-bi	kur-re	ḫe₂-eb-us₂
me	kur	me	al	dug₄	sa₂	dug₄	kur	us₂
essence	(mountain) land	essence	desire	to say	to equal	to say	(mountain) land	to be adjacent
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Paragraph t141.p34 (line(s) 190-194) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

In his rage Father Enlil answered Ninšubur: "My daughter craved the great heaven and she craved the great below as well. Inana craved the great heaven and she craved the great below as well. The divine powers of the underworld are divine powers which should not be craved, for whoever gets them must remain in the underworld. Who, having got to that place, could then expect to come up again?"

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary