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Ishtar's army of the dead

Tunnetaan myös nimellä: Descent of Ishtar, Ishtar's threat
Kansanperinne ja myytitEpäkuollutAntiikin maailma

The oldest surviving reference to the dead rising to eat the living is a threat, not a story. In the Akkadian Descent of Ishtar the goddess, refused entry to the underworld, promises to release its inhabitants on the world above, and in the Epic of Gilgamesh she repeats the threat to get her way in heaven. The dead never actually rise in either text. The idea itself, a mass of hungry corpses overwhelming the living, was nevertheless already familiar some three thousand years ago.123

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The Akkadian Descent of Ishtar, known from early first-millennium BC tablets found at Nineveh and Assur; the threat also appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh
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The goddess threatens to break open the underworld and let its dead out.
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The dead would be released by the goddess; the text notes they do not return by their own choice.

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The Akkadian Descent of Ishtar, known from early first-millennium BC tablets found at Nineveh and Assur; the threat also appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh

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Mitä lähteet sanovat

1

At the gate of the underworld Ishtar threatens to smash the door and raise the dead to devour the living123

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She warns that the dead will then outnumber the living123

3

In Gilgamesh she makes the same threat to her father Anu to obtain the Bull of Heaven123

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The Descent of Ishtar runs to 138 lines and was among the first Akkadian literary texts translated in modern times123

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Historians of horror cite the passage as the earliest written image of the flesh-eating dead123

Lähteet

  1. Descent of Inanna into the Underworld - Wikipedia
  2. Epic of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia
  3. Zombie - Wikipedia

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