"To Hades' darkened land, whence none return,
Queen Ishtar, Sin's great daughter, now doth turn;
Inclined her ear and listened through the void
That lay beneath of every path devoid,
The home of darkness, of the Under-World"
ISHTAR'S DESCENT TO HADES--HER FEARFUL RECEPTION
Ishtar and Izdubar by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton
