Ereshkigal commands Namtar as her vizier in the land of no return, dispatching him to the upper world as her emissary and loosing his sixty diseases upon those she condemns.
When Ereshkigal sent her vizier Namtar to collect her share of a heavenly banquet, Nergal alone among the gods refused to rise in respect — an insult that forced him to descend to the underworld and face the queen's wrath.
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