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Ishtar's army of the dead

Auch bekannt als: Descent of Ishtar, Ishtar's threat
Folklore und MythenUntotAntike

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

Gegen ihn kämpfen
Erstmals belegt
1000 v. Chr.
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
Herkunft
Mesopotamian (Akkadian)
Irak
Was es auslöst
Sonstige
The goddess threatens to break open the underworld and let its dead out.
Wie man einer wird
The dead would be released by the goddess; the text notes they do not return by their own choice.

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

AntikeMittelalter1500 bis 18991900 bis 19671968 bis 19992000 bis 20092010 bis heute1000 v. Chr.

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

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

1

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

2

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

4

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

5

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

Quellen

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

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