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Updated: June 21, 2025
The poem in which the narrative is preserved gives a description of the "house of darkness, where they behold no light," and then tells how, at the orders of Ninkigal or Allat, queen of Hades, Istar is deprived, successively, in spite of her remonstrances, of all her ornaments, and how the plague-demon Namtar is bidden to strike her with all manner of diseases.
A text calls the entire group of demons, the demon of wasting disease, the demon of fever, the demon of erysipelas, and the like, 'the offspring of Aralû, 'the sons and messengers of Namtar, the bearers of destruction for Allatu. These demons are sent out from Aralû to plague the living, but once they have brought their victims to Aralû, their task is done. They do not trouble the dead.
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