Which Death Goddess are you?

[Aedh]

Fun quiz!

And fully approved by Taylor, Vartan, and Adela. ;D

If I were a Death Goddess--saith the quiz--I'd be Kali. There are twelve possible results, though the one I really believe I'd best match isn't one of the ones listed.

[Mira]

My best match was Eriskegal - although I almost gave up because of all those sponsors pages at the end of the quiz...I thought I was never going to get an answer!

[Aedh]

Interesting. Ereshkigal--usual spelling--began as a goddess like any other, the sister of the more famous bint Ishtar. Sound familiar? One sister gets the looks, the other gets the brains--and NO credit for guessing who gets to marry the Prince.

At the separation of heaven and earth Ereshkigal was caught out and trapped under the earth. There she became patroness of winter, death, and decay, ruled a vast subterranean realm, and was the receiver of all offerings for the dead.

Once, the gods themselves had cause to send her an offering--to settle some intramural quibble, no doubt--but no god cared to venture to her dreadful realm except Nergal, the fearless god of war. (As Inna, he was also the god of plagues.) Nergal brought her offering, and it was love at first sight. They had a passionate fling.

After Nergal had to leave and go do some slaughter, Ereshkigal grieved the loss of her lover, shedding many tears, and sending many entreaties, but all in vain. Finally, in a savage mood, she sent a message to Anu (head god) that she would empty the Land of the Dead and command all its denizens to earth, "so that they shall outnumber the living," unless she were reunited with Nergal--by whom she believed she was pregnant.

When Nergal heard of this, he needed no prompting to prepare to open a can of whup-ass. He rode hard, returned ahead of Ereshkigal's messenger, stormed the underworld--smashing its seven gates--and strode straight into the goddess' passionate embrace. As conquerors often did in those days with queens of wherever they'd just conquered, he married her and thereby became also Lord of the underworld. Since war, plague, death, famine, destruction, disease, despair, and PMS were now united in one head office, this could be described as one of the earliest corporate mergers.

[Mira]

Gosh! Doesn't sound like me at all!