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Ereshkigal
After
Ki, Mother Earth and Queen, was separated by Enlil, Lord Air, Master of
Winds, their firstborn, from An, Sky father and King, and the primal
Unity of Heaven and Earth was forever lost, in the Heights Above, An
wept for Ki, longing for her embrace and kiss. His heartfelt tears met
Nammu the Sea. She reached out for the Sky Lord, and Mother and grieving
son made for the first time sweet Love. From the mingling of their
bodies a Boy and a Girl, Divine Twins were born. Enki and Ereshkigal,
they were called.
As time went by, Ereshkigal and Enki grew with the blessings of
Creation’s dawn. Curious and sometimes wise beyond their years,
brother and sister played especially in the Watery Deep of Nammu the
Sea. Enki would float here and there, whereas Ereshkigal swam and dived
everywhere.
' Ereshkigal, I can't see you! Come back to the surface, will you? Why
do you have to hide within the waters when there is so much to see and
do without?’ asked Enki with a sigh.
'A rhetoric question, young brother, without doubt', countered Enlil
amusedly from the shore, where he kept watch over the Duku, the Holy
Mound of Creation, and Mother Ki, his eyes gleaming with fond laughter.
'Just let Ereshkigal be for a while. At least I could do without her
whys and wherefores for a minute or so!'
' I heard you, Big Brother!' replied Ereshkigal. She came out to the
surface riding a wave, and immediately put all her efforts together to
raise a mighty wall of splashing water towards the rock where Enlil
watched over the Earth and Enki's floating body. Both Enlil and Enki ran
for cover. They were going to succeed and escape Ereshkigal’s watery
rage... perhaps this time?
"Not as yet", thought Ereshkigal with a satisfied grin,
dripping with water and as fresh as the purest springs of Mother Urash.
She sat by Enlil’s and Enki’s feet.
' So I ask too many questions, brothers of mine? Of course I do! I want
to Know and to Know I must ask first! At least this is what I feel it
should be!’ Ereshkigal ignored the resigned amusement of Enlil and
Enki and proceeded with confidence: ‘ There is a whole world within
the Sea and I suspect in everything there is. Moreover, there must be
things beyond and below I feel I should know, and I will, one day. While
you, Enlil, devise the Plans of Creation, and you, Enki, busy yourself
with forms and shapes these plans may take without, I am concerned with
the power within that binds these plans and images together in
combinations of all sorts. I don’t know how to explain it, but I
simply feel there is a refulgence within, there is a Pattern that binds
words and shapes together, beings and things, and it is this pattern I
want to know. I will know. I just need to find out how.‘
A fleeting shadow crossed Enlil’s smiling face. ‘I wish I saw things
your way, Ereshkigal, just to understand and explain the unexplained.
Take Kur, for example, and our dark little brothers and sisters who
followed him to the land’s end. It is true Kur and the others looked
different from us. But why did they leave the safety of the Duku, the
mound of creation, why did they go beyond the Waters of Mother Nammu.'
‘ You are worrying about Kur and the Dark Guardians again, Enlil. Why
don’t you take them and Kur for what they are? Whatever and wherever
they are?’ asked Ereshkigal.
‘ Had you laid your eyes on Kur, you’d understand my concern. He and
the others are different from us, from our younger sisters and brothers.
'
‘ But why should we all be the same, Older Brother? Indeed, I believe
we are all very, very different. In Form and Essence, despite some
Resemblance in Appearance. I may be very wrong, Enlil, but I feel that
if you keep fixing your eyes on but one thing, you’ll miss out what
could be the other side of the same thing. Or person and being,'
remarked thoughtfully Ereshkigal.
' Wise words, little sister! The point is that I take my Guardianship
over the Earth too serious,' agreed Enlil. 'But there is something odd I
cannot understand about Kur. And I for sure wouldn’t like to visit the
place where he chose to dwell either, at the entrance of the
Underworld,’ countered Enlil.
‘ I am sort of curious about these unknowable things. And I don’t
fear what I don’t know. Even this Kur you don’t understand, Enlil.
Indeed, I am curious about Kur,’ replied Ereshkigal. ‘And where is
this Underworld, by the way?’
‘ None have gone there yet', answered Enki. ' It is beyond the edge of
this world. Mother Nammu says that it spreads itself as deep below as
the heights of Father An stretch above.’
' This sounds really interesting! A whole new realm nobody has been to
or knows so much about!’ exclaimed Ereshkigal.
‘ O, sister, sometimes I wish you showed more respect for what you
don’t know. Just for safety’s sake’, supplied Enki.
‘ I am careful. And Inquisitive and Curious.’ In her mind,
Ereshkigal added silently " even about this mysterious Kur and the
Underworld".
And so it was that Ereshkigal, the daughter of Nammu the Sea, born of
the bittersweet loss that the Sky father felt for Ki, twin Sister of
Enki, grew with the Desire to Know the Unknown and Reveal Patterns
Unseen. Everyday she would play with Enki, her Companion and Best of
Friends, and pester Enlil with countless questions. Everyday Ereshkigal
would dive into the deep waters of the Mother and swim longer distances
to resurface energized, with more and more questions in her mind and a
deeper resolve forming inside.
One day, Ereshkigal chose not to return to the Middle world. This was
the day she had found Kur (or he had found her perhaps?), and the little
dark half brothers and sisters of theirs. They looked ugly and
threatening, scattered over the edge of the world, at the entrance of
the Underworld. They seemed to be lonely too, for all kept to their
spaces, alone and isolated, but looking pretty menacing.
Little dark half brothers and sisters ?, So this must be a
"wrong" and other creation of her mother Nammu with another
God, but maybe a experimental creation of the Gods.
" So much pain and loneliness, such rage and hunger for what they
know not what. Such desire to belong, but they know not where or
how" , she thought, but didn’t say a word.
Faithful to herself, Ereshkigal didn’t flinch at Kur’s features or
at the misshapen faces of the dark little ones. Yes, he did not look
like any of the other Anunnaki Ereshkigal knew very well, but this
didn’t make him threatening to her. Kur was... different. Indeed, with
his huge scaly body and wings, Primeval Snake and Dragon, Ereshkigal
felt he was like the raw power of Mother Ninhursag-Ki. A Beast, but she
knew there was beauty within him... Still, Ereshkigal l felt no fear for
the Unknown and a longing embrace it and make her it own.
‘ I am not afraid of you. Of any of you’ she said out loud, and she
meant it. ‘ You are my half brother, Kur, and so are the dark little
ones. And somehow I feel there is beauty within you all, even if you and
others don’t have eyes to see. But I have. Dive into your Essence,
brother, search for the seed that brought you, me and all into being. I
also came from that seed. There you will find what unite us, what make
us One of a Kind with the One who is All Kinds.’
Thus she dived into the immensity of Kur’s anguish and loss, for she
accepted Kur for what he was, ugliness, pain, rage and loneliness to
find out his all whys.
‘ I vowed to challenge and fight to the very end all who dared to fare
to the world’s end,’ said Kur.
‘ And I take up the Challenge,’ answered Ereshkigal. ‘But I’ve
traveled long and far to come to you. You are a Challenge to me. I need
to understand you. And myself along the process.’
" Why are you doing this?"
Ereshkigal heard the question in her mind, as she held Kur closer and
closer to her own self.
" I myself don’t know very well why, but I simply need to.
Perhaps to grow in Understanding of who I am, of who and what you and
your own are. To learn and Share, out of a Desire for Love and Healing
that comes from the bottom of my heart, mind, body and Soul. And may
this way, when I am wise about these things, may I perhaps earn my crown
in a brand new Realm, ‘ she replied loud and clear.
Kur’s features must have shown the equivalent to a smile, for his
voice sounded also light-hearted and interested.
‘ You are strange, half sister. I won’t fight you... as yet. Tell me
about this new realm where you want to conquer your crown,’ said Kur,
his curiosity stirred.
‘ How... I still must find out. Where...’
Ereshkigal turned round pointed at the distance, where the Unknown lied
yet unexplored.
‘ There,’ she said, ’the Unknown, the Underworld, the Depths
Within, where Appearances don’t count, just Essence. Perhaps I’ll go
further by going deeper. Who knows?’
Kur came closer and closer still. Ereshkigal kept her ground, just
waiting. So although he might think he was seizing her, indeed it was
she who had captured him. To stretch his and her boundaries of being.
Heart pounding, but keeping very still outwards, Ereshkigal felt her
awareness grow as she experienced the wounds Kur had inside, his desire
to belong anywhere, to fit in. Suddenly, she also realized how different
she had always felt. Even from Enki and Enlil, whom she loved with all
her heart, mind and soul, but who could never dive into the depths she
longed to thread upon.
Ereshkigal sighed deeply, and glanced into the distance for a brief
moment, in the direction where Enlil and Enki sure were. Maybe her Quest
was another. She turned to Kur.
‘ What I will be from now on, I must discover’, was her cryptic
reply to Kur’s unspoken question, but she knew he understood what she
still was unable to say out loud.
‘ It may be a long task,’ Kur replied.
‘ Perhaps if I let each day bring what it has to offer, and see what I
can do with what it brings, I will be able to accomplish something
different. To learn something different and grow likewise. Will you do
this with me?’
Thoughtfully, but with an engaging smile, Ereshkigal stretched her hand
to hold Kur’s scaly paw. Together, they crossed the threshold to the
Underworld.
Ereshkigal had always felt the pull to feel and experience the Unknown.
Now she chose to go where no one had gone before, to stay in the
uncharted realms of the Great Below, to fill up its Emptiness with her
Being. Her voice then resonated loud and clear in all worlds of
Creation, Heights Above, Middle world, over the edge of the Earth and,
for the first time, echoed in the Depths Below: ‘ I claim the Realm of
the Depths, the Underworld as my domain.’
She had found her life’s Quest. Not looking back, Ereshkigal crossed
the threshold to the Below, never to come back.
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Writings:
Enuma
Elish
Gilgamesh
Descent
of Ishtar
Nibiru
Adapa
Ki-Amum
Cursing
of Agade
Enki
and Ninhursag
Enki
& the World Order
Enki
and Ninmah
Enki
builds E-Engurra
Enlil
in E-Kur
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