The Legends of History | Could You Survive The Mesopotamian Underworld? @thelegendsofhistory | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 10 hours ago
The Mesopotamian concept of the underworld, or simply life after death, differed depending on the time period or the region one mightve found themselves in. Indeed, there was no all encompassing book that detailed the rules or the features of what lurked on the other side and there was no fundamental belief that determined whether a person might burn in the netherworld or live forever in the heavens. Naturally, when we think about the myriad of cultures from the Sumerians, Babylonians, Akkadians and Assyrians, theres bound to be some ideas that were not congruent with each other, which meant that what mightve been true for one group of people in the ancient times, might not have been the case for another group some thousand years later.

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0:00 Intro
2:08 Underworld In Mythology: Atrahasis
3:33 Underworld In Mythology: Epic of Gilgamesh
4:36 Underworld In Mythology: Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld
13:33 Underworld In Mythology: Inanna's Descent ToThe Netherworld
19:42 Etemmu
22:41 Location of the Underworld
25:18 Ereshkigal
19:28 Places of Interest In The Duat
27:57 Conclusion


TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO
- Mesopotamian History
- Mesopotamian Mythology
- Underworld
- Netherworld
- Demons
- Gods and Goddesses

Sources and Further Reading

- The Book of The Dead
- The Devil's Atlas - Edward Brooke-Hitching
- The Egyptian Myths - Garry J Shaw
- Atrahasis
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Gilgamesh, The Life of a Poem - Michael Schmidt
- Inanna's Descent To The Underworld

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