Kurnugia

Kurnugia ( Babylonian qaqqar, also replace la tari "land of no return ") is the Sumerian name of the dead.

Kurnugia is bordered by underworld river Ḫubur. The underworld has seven gates, the first or the input is Ganṣir (Sumerian IGI.KUR.ZA, IGI.ZA.KUR ). It was also called igi.kur.ra, eye of the underworld. According to the myth " Nergal's passage to the underworld " are the other goals Nedu, Enkišar, Endašurimma, Enuralla, Endukuga, Endušuba and Ennugigi.

In the myth Istar hell ride Kurnugia is described in more detail:

" For Kurnugia, the land of no return, Ishtar turned her mind ... after the sinister House of Irkalla, to the house, which it enters, not again leaves on the path, the treading of no return is, to the house, who it enters, devoid of light, where dust their hunger, their food clay, the light they do not see, they sit in darkness. "

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu tells his friend Gilgamesh a dream in which the land is described without recurrence similar to Istar descent into hell. The residents of Kurnugia addition there are mentioned:

"There are a bunch on the crown. There sit the kings there, the former crowned heads who ruled over the country since ancient times ... There sit the High, Incantation and cleaning priest sitting there, the anointed of the gods. There sits Etana, there sits Šakkan, there sits the Queen of the Underworld, Ereškigal, ( and ) Belet - Seri, an accountant of the underworld lies before her on his knees. "