Ereshkigal
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Oct 28, 2026
Sabrina LynnHOST
started to get deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper.
Sabrina LynnHOST
We started to work with archetypes like Inanna, Ereshkigal, archetypes like Sedna, like the deepest depths of the feminine archetypal journeys that you can get into.
Sabrina LynnHOST
And that's what we've been holding for the last six weeks as we've moved our way into this space this circle this journey are these deeper depths of the feminine
Sabrina LynnHOST
i think it might serve to answer the question
Heather WolfSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's what's written.
Heather WolfSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And she descends into the underworld to meet her twin sister, Ereshkigal, who kills her because she's in the underworld.
Heather WolfSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Only the dead are in the underworld.
Heather WolfSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then the mythology continues of her reemergence back into life, which is similar to the Demeter-Persephone mythology that many of us are more familiar with.
Elayne Kalila DoughtyGUEST
So with that said, at the heart of my work is the mystery of death and rebirth, right? So...
Elayne Kalila DoughtyGUEST
The Divine Family Mysteries are focused on cyclical life, death, and rebirth stories, whether we go with Persephone and Demeter or Inanna and Ereshkigal, right? These are all famous myths and stories that we have that are about death and rebirth.
Elayne Kalila DoughtyGUEST
The Christian church wasn't the first mystery school as it was in the beginning that took on this myth of death and resurrection.
Elayne Kalila DoughtyGUEST
And really what I have learned through my life is that we live many lives in one life.
Cissi WilliamsHOST
And Inanna's story begins with her hearing the call from the Great Below.
Cissi WilliamsHOST
She feels she's meant to journey down into the underworld to meet her older sister, Ereshkigal.
Cissi WilliamsHOST
So Inanna sets off on her journey of descent.
Cissi WilliamsHOST
and she takes her faithful and wise servant with her, Ninshibur, asking her to hold guard as Inanna journeys down to the underworld.
Cissi WilliamsHOST
And then she sets off, alone.
Cissi WilliamsHOST
When Inanna comes to the outer gates of the underworld, she knocks on the gate, and Neti, the gatekeeper, greets her.
Cissi WilliamsHOST
Inanna explains that she has come to see her older sister, but when Neti tells Ereshkigal, she is not happy to hear that Inanna wants to enter the underworld.
Cissi WilliamsHOST
So Ereshkigal tells Neti to bolt the seven gates of the underworld, and she says...
Ryan NielsenGUEST
And we start with a sense of ancientness that I can barely hold.
Ryan NielsenGUEST
Because before she was Ereshkigal, she was Ninlil.
Ryan NielsenGUEST
She was the goddess through whom the grains poured.
Ryan NielsenGUEST
It was her womb that birthed the grains that supported life.
Vive OldhamHOST
any way.
Ryan NielsenGUEST
It's so hard to even talk about.
Ryan NielsenGUEST
But when we talk about Enlil's brutality towards Ereshkigal, what we might imagine is the...
Ryan NielsenGUEST
There's something of this, something happened in the human psyche where the feminine was devalued and, and at great cost.
Wendy RuleHOST
This reminder that Venus, the ruler of Taurus, does have an underworld aspect.
Wendy RuleHOST
So Inanna goes down to visit her sister Ereshkigal.
Wendy RuleHOST
So there's like a life and death aspect between Inanna and Ereshkigal.
Wendy RuleHOST
For Persephone, she's both the flower maiden of the Beltane times, and she's also queen of the underworld, of the Samhain and of the autumn and winter.
Wendy RuleHOST
She's both.
Renee SillsHOST
And some scholars of mythologies talk about the call actually being from her own spirit.
Renee SillsHOST
And this is a call towards accountability and repair and a necessary reckoning because she's actually in part responsible for the death of her sister's husband.
Renee SillsHOST
And her sister, Ereshkigal, dwells in the underworld.
Renee SillsHOST
And her sister is in pain.
Renee SillsHOST
Her sister is mourning her loss.
Renee SillsHOST
And she's also in the throes of giving birth, according to some stories.
Renee SillsHOST
So she's really in a scorpionic portal of death and birth and transformation.
Renee SillsHOST
And what she has to sacrifice in big ways are her attachments.
Chani NicholasHOST
Because the planet Venus was thought to be the goddess Inanna.
Chani NicholasHOST
And when Venus would retrograde and go invisible, it was thought that the great goddess descended into the underworld to visit her sister Ereshkigal.
Chani NicholasHOST
Now, the beginning of the myth talks about Inanna opening her ear, laying it on the ground so that she can hear her sister, Ereshkigal, call her.
Chani NicholasHOST
She's moaning in the underworld.
Chani NicholasHOST
She's grieving the loss of her husband.
Chani NicholasHOST
It's a way of understanding the order of the universe that we live within, especially because it was the known visible universe.
Chani NicholasHOST
So by the time Inanna gets through the seven gates of hell, the seven gates of the underworld, she is naked.
Chani NicholasHOST
And it says that she has to bow low to enter into Ereshkigal, her sister's lair.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
Here Enkidu saw in his dream creatures who had been kings when they lived upon the earth and shadowy beings offering roasted meat to Anu and Enlil and cold drinks poured out from waterskins.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
In this house of dust dwelt high priests, ministrants, the magician and the prophet and the deities Etana, Sumukan, Ereshkigal, queen of the earth and Belitzeri who registered the deeds done upon the earth.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
When Gilgamesh heard this dream he brought out a table and setting on it honey and butter placed it before Shamash.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
The fourth tablet.
Julia AnastasiouHOST
What am I learning within myself, and how will I honor it when I return? Inanna, entering beyond what we know.
Julia AnastasiouHOST
In the Sumerian story, Inanna chooses to descend into the realm of her sister, Ereshkigal.
Julia AnastasiouHOST
Before leaving, she asks her faithful attendant to seek help if she fails to return.
Julia AnastasiouHOST
Inanna then passes through seven gates.
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