Literature:Ishtar spoke to her father/Chlouvānem

Ishtar spoke to her father/Chlouvānem 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.

⸫iṣtara mæn ⸫anu ga bunā takulek :
"bunē lairī snīdbhu męliūyūsi :
tami ⸫gilgamešu amahe kautedrēt ।।
pū nyēt lairī snīdbhu gu męliatyūsi
uḍūkabāni geiraih šutayuṃrūndhāltam :
geirjagdhrāṣa bītedadrāltam sama geiraih bikṣutevautildālam
sama uḍūkaih yanatiākayeɂęriāltaṃte liląaih yųlēt !
sama uḍūkē liląenīs narenanūjalṣya !"

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!"