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“The dying-and-rising son (sometimes daughter) of god 'mytheme' originated in the ancient Near East over a thousand years before Christianity, and was spread across the Mediterranean... the earliest documented examples are the cult of lanna and Dumuzi, the cult of Baal and Anat, and the cult of Marduk, all of whose resurrection stories are told in Sumerian, Ugaritic and Assyrian tablets long predating the advent of Christianity.“

Sumerian Mythology - The earliest deities of ancient Mesopotamia (50)

“Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld” – Who will bring up the drum & drumsticks from the nether world?

The episode "Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Underworld" is part of the Sumerian tradition of Gilgamesh, whose ancient book is called "In the Days of Old".

It was included in the twelfth clay of “the Epic of Gilgamesh”, but only the second half of the text was included, because of its difficult content starting with the creation myth, and it is treated as a separate edition, completely independent of the main story:

A hulupp tree (Sumerian/Akkadian for 'tree of life') grows on the banks of the Euphrates, the south wind blows it away and the goddess Inanna gathers it, planting it in her garden to use her wood as a throne. But the serpent "who knows no charm," the Anzû-bird, and Lilitu, a Mesopotamian demon, all take up residence within the tree.

Inanna asks her brother Utu (Shamash) for help, in vain, and then Gilgamesh. Hearing Inanna's distress, Gilgamesh comes to her rescue with an axe weighing 213.5 kg (470.7 lb). He slays the serpent, causing the Anzû-bird and the female demon Lilitu, to flee. Inanna responds by fashioning ellag (a drum) and ekidma (drumsticks), which she gives to Gilgamesh as a reward for his heroism. Gilgamesh holds a banquet in Uruk, where he would not stop playing with ellag and ekidma.The citizens are discontented by the exited young men of Uruk, and ellag and ekidma fall into the Underworld.

Gilgamesh loses the ellag and ekidma and Enkidu offers descending to the Underworld to find them, but not before receiving explanations from Gilgamesh on how to behave in hell, to not seem alive in the residence of the dead. Enkidu however, ignores them; consequently, Enkidu ends up being held forever in the Underworld. The remaining portion of the poem is a dialogue in which Gilgamesh asks the shade of Enkidu questions about the Underworld.

シュメール神話～古代メソポタミア最古の神々(50)

『ギルガメシュ、エンキドゥ、そして冥界』〜冥土から太鼓とバチを持ってくるのは誰？

『ギルガメシュとエンキドゥと冥界』というエピソードは、シュメール語のギルガメシュ伝承の1つで、古代の書名を『古の日々に』とする。創世神話から始まる難しい内容となっているため、『ギルガメシュ叙事詩』の第12の粘土版に収録されるも入れられたのは本文全体の後半部分のみであり、更に本編からは完全に独立した外伝作品として扱われている：

ユーフラテス川のほとりにフルップの樹（シュメール/アッカド語で「生命の木」のこと）が生え、南風に吹き飛ばされ、女神イナンナはその木をウルクに持ち帰り、庭に植え、玉座とする。ところが、「協調性を知らない蛇」「アンズー鳥」「メソポタミアの女悪霊リリトゥ」がその木に住み着いてしまった。イナンナは兄のウトゥに助けを求めるが、それもむなしく、ギルガメッシュに助けを求める。イナンナの困惑を聞きつけたギルガメシュが、213.5kgもの斧を持って助けにやって来た。彼は大蛇を殺し、アンズー鳥を山に、悪霊リリトゥを砂漠に追い出す。イナンナはそれに応えて、ギルガメシュにエルラグ（ドラム缶）とエキドマ（ドラムスティック）を英雄的行為の褒美として与える。ギルガメシュは広場で宴会を開き、エルラグとエキドマに興じてやめようとしなかった。興奮し羽目を外したウルクの若者たちにより、市民たちの不満がつのり、エルラグとエキドマは冥界に落ちてしまう。

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