A little dust never stopped me none

Apologies for the timing. Happy Valentine's Day: Ištar's in the underworld: no sex for you.

ištu ullânum ^dIštar ana KUR.NU.GI uridu
^dEreškigal īmuršima ina pānīša ir'ub
^dIštar ul immalik elēnušša ušbī
^dEreškigal pāša īpušma iqabbi
ana ^dNamtar sukkalīša amāta izzakar
alik ^dNamtar . . .
šūsaši šuši mursī . . . ^dIštar
murus īnī ana īnīša
murus ahī ana ahīša
murus šēpī ana šēpīša
murus libbī ana libbīša
murus qaqqadī ana qaqqadīša
ana šaša gabbišama ana . . .
arki bēltī ^dIštar [ana KUR.NU.GI uridu],
ana būrti alpu ul ušahhit imēru atāna ul ušara
ardatum ina sūqi ul ušara etlu
ittil etlu ina kummišu
ittil ardatum ina ahiša

As soon as Ištar went down to the underworld, then
Ereškigal saw her and shook with anger at her presence.
Ištar did not think, she sat [highly uncertain] above her.
Ereškigal spoke up and said
to Namtar her minister, she said:
"Go, Namtar . . .
Make sixty diseases go out against Ištar,
disease of the eyes against her eyes,
disease of the arms against her arms,
disease of the feet against her feet,
disease of the heart against her heart,
disease of the head against her head,
against her, all of her . . ."
As soon as my lady Ištar went down to the underworld,
the bull does not mount the cow, the donkey does not make pregnant the jenny,
the young man does not make pregnant the young woman in the street,
the young man sleeps in his own private room,
the young woman sleeps among her own company.

(Lines 63—80 of Ištar's Descent to the Underworld, manuscript from Nineveh)

Lupercalia V2.0

And I will shrink into a teardrop just to drown inside your eyes
And a thousand things preposterous, but I'll try and I'll try and I'll try
Just to get closer to you . . .

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Akkadoporn!

In honor of the holiday, and to counterbalance the portion of Ištar's Descent presented earlier today, I offer here a Neo-Assyrian ŠÀ.ZI.GA incantation. Literally, "heart-lifting." A more accurate translation might be "getting it up." Ahem.

LJ-cut for scenes of explicit sexuality and Akkadian anatomical slang.
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