Hi
Arigon. In my limited understanding of things, I understand that Inanna - the queen of heaven - went to the underworld to try and gain additional powers as boons from the gods down there, not just her sister Ereshkigal - the queen of the underworld, but was struck dead by the seven judges of the underworld - who consider her to be a threat to the underworld - after removing her protections. Back home Inanna's aide, Ninshubur, pleads with the gods to save her, and Enki sends a rescue team of just two as you say. These two are to revive Inanna with the food and water of life - food of life could be blood of course. In the event Inanna is successfully brought back to life and flees the underworld, followed by a mass of demons who demand a replacement for her. Long story short ... Inanna initially refuses to send any loyal servant in her place until she finds that her husband did not miss her when she was dead, so she gives him over as her replacement... Want to take a guess as to who VG will send back as a replacement? Lol. You could be right in that in the end just Calisto and MC together with similar powers have to go to the cave and rescue her - but my guess is that will be CH 5 and not CH 4... Other thread nonsense - just cut of on my side, so it is ignored now.
So based on what has been literally dug up in recent (relatively) years has given several accounts of the story.
Inanna in some stories is a love/fertility/sky goddess synonymous with Isis, Aphrodite, and many many others.
In other stories she is depicted as a god slayer and power stealer. She is one of the cases where the child was mightier than the parent, at least in Sumerian Myths of this type. She went to the Underworld using the pretext of the death of Ereshkigals husband, but was seeking to steal yet another realm of power. Ereshkigal in this tale, had her servant * possibly someone along the lines of another god, who was the gate keeper, instruct Inanna that if she wished to enter, she must give up one item of clothing/jewelry per gate. There were 7 gates.
Most of the stories have Ereshkigal actually killing Inanna, but the 7 judges were invoked as to whether she could depart the realm and be reborn. She was denied this, and placed on a hook on an ancient wall. She bled out, and was denied respite from this until Enki dispatched 2 Galla to rescue her. Now there are also tales which speak of a single godling retrieving her, but most of the really reputable scholars go with the Galla story. She had to send someone back, and it was her husband, and his sister, who split the time evenly, each spending half a year at a time so that Inanna could do things like destroying massive mountain gods and other conquests.
The Ereshkigal/Inanna myth is the most pivotal of all the myths surrounding both goddesses.
I think that the wiki does a fairly ok job on describing some of this, but leaves a lot to be desired. I will try and find my post I made a while back which I referenced actual scholars who did translations of the glyphs and later writings on this.
For what it is worth, she is even mentioned in Semitic faiths. Much of what was later introduced into Judaism and later Christianity has it's source in Babylon/Sumer/Mesopotamian/Zoroastrian myths.
I am very excited to see what is coming, but yes, we won't see the biggest battles until next year. We should see some massive build ups though. The MC must grow stronger if he is to be of use in this battle, and I am really sold on the Calisto Virgil/Arcas story.
We shall see my friend.
Peace
