Djiril
March 25th, 2008, 01:41 AM
Maybe it's the lateness of the hour, but this really cracked me up:
The story goes like this: Ishtar took it upon herself one to visit Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld, to discuss topics lost to the mists of time, though the pro-underworld faction claims that Ishtar was there to try and steal the underworld. But you know how people can be—always claiming that women, especially sexy women, are all deceitful bitches out for money, so I’m skeptical of this interpretation. Ishtar got into the joint by doing the Dance of the Seven Veils, basically a big strip tease that managed to distract the guardians of hell long enough to let her in. Ereshkigal, who was jealous of Ishtar’s fun-and-sassy “Sex and the City” lifestyle, put Ishtar in prison for what I do believe could have been anywhere from 3 days to a number of months. (Accounts vary, depending on how much the Great Goddess has had to drink, and how much she’s trying to impress some hot young fellow with her toughness.)
The problem was that without Ishtar walking around above ground, people, animals, and even plants lost all will to get it on. With the planet threatening to turn from “Sex and the City” to a particularly odious episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond”, well, despair took over, which should not surprise any of you. The other gods, who did get most of their entertainment watching the parade of fornication below them, got really upset about this, and sent a messenger to the underworld to convince Ereshkigal to set her petty grievances aside or face the wrath of people who hang out in the sunlight more often. Ereshkigal gave in, let them bring Ishtar back to life (prison is really rough in the underworld), and ended up going on to form Concerned Women for America, figuring if she couldn’t magic all the sex off the planet, she could at least gripe about it in the form of political lobbying.
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/the-true-meaning-of-easter/
The story goes like this: Ishtar took it upon herself one to visit Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld, to discuss topics lost to the mists of time, though the pro-underworld faction claims that Ishtar was there to try and steal the underworld. But you know how people can be—always claiming that women, especially sexy women, are all deceitful bitches out for money, so I’m skeptical of this interpretation. Ishtar got into the joint by doing the Dance of the Seven Veils, basically a big strip tease that managed to distract the guardians of hell long enough to let her in. Ereshkigal, who was jealous of Ishtar’s fun-and-sassy “Sex and the City” lifestyle, put Ishtar in prison for what I do believe could have been anywhere from 3 days to a number of months. (Accounts vary, depending on how much the Great Goddess has had to drink, and how much she’s trying to impress some hot young fellow with her toughness.)
The problem was that without Ishtar walking around above ground, people, animals, and even plants lost all will to get it on. With the planet threatening to turn from “Sex and the City” to a particularly odious episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond”, well, despair took over, which should not surprise any of you. The other gods, who did get most of their entertainment watching the parade of fornication below them, got really upset about this, and sent a messenger to the underworld to convince Ereshkigal to set her petty grievances aside or face the wrath of people who hang out in the sunlight more often. Ereshkigal gave in, let them bring Ishtar back to life (prison is really rough in the underworld), and ended up going on to form Concerned Women for America, figuring if she couldn’t magic all the sex off the planet, she could at least gripe about it in the form of political lobbying.
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/the-true-meaning-of-easter/