Literature:Ishtar spoke to her father/Fejãto
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Ishtar spoke to her father/Fejãto is the incipit of a famed section in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic Mesopotamian poem, and one of the earliest surviving works of literature. |
- Adapted from an English translation of the Akkadian version, from Tablet VI.
Ishtar prãgunejes noç leçu tam, da Anu, ethurejeçendo-leç,
«Tamilo, liu saj no borudeo da egulaç,
hã laç mosares ___ (kill)
Ishtar spoke to her father, Anu, saying:
"Father, give me the Bull of Heaven,
so he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling.
If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven,
I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
I will smash the door posts, and leave the doors flat down,
and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
And the dead will outnumber the living!"
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