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Ereshkigal

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eresh-kigalnoun	goddess of death and consort of nergal
ereshkigelnoun	goddess of death and consort of nergal

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eresh-kigalnoun	goddess of death and consort of nergal
ereshkigelnoun	goddess of death and consort of nergal
erebusnoun	(Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
erebosnoun	(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Erebus. [(Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.]
keresnoun	(Greek mythology) The goddesses of death, specifically cruel and violent deaths, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease. They numbered in the thousands and were the daughters of Nyx and Erebus, and the sisters of Thanatos and Hypnos. Their Roman counterparts were the Letum or the Tenebrae.
erisnoun	(Greek mythology) The goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War; equated by Homer with Enyo (goddess of violent war) and identified with the Roman goddess Discordia;
nemesisnoun	An enemy, especially an archenemy.
inannanoun	(mythology, Mesopotamian mythology) A Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, known by the Akkadians as Ishtar and later identified with Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.
ishtarnoun	(Mesopotamian mythology) A goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.
ninhursagnoun	(Sumerian mythology) The Sumerian earth and mother goddess, one of the seven great deities of Sumer.
ninlilnoun	(Mesopotamian mythology) In Sumerian mythology, the consort goddess of Enlil.
eurydicenoun	(Greek mythology) A nymph and the wife of Orpheus.
lethenoun	(Greek mythology) The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.
qadeshtunoun	A putative Canaanite goddess. Her Egyptian equivalent is Qetesh.
nergalnoun	(Mesopotamian mythology) A deity worshipped throughout ancient Mesopotamia, associated with war, pestilence, and the Sun.
xibalbanoun	The underworld in Mayan mythology.
ninanoun	A female given name in continuous use since the 19th century.
echidnanoun	Any of the species of small spined monotremes in the family Tachyglossidae, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea.
orcusnoun	(Roman mythology) The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.
eurybianoun	(Greek mythology) A sea goddess in Ancient Greek mythology.