| Who will plow my high field? Inanna, displeased, decrees that the demons shall take him, using language which echoes the speech Ereshkigal gave while condemning her | Breitenberger, Barbara 2007 , , New York City, New York and London, England,• Who will plow my vulva? In the text known as The Most Bitter Cry, Dumuzid is chased by the "seven evil deputies of the netherworld" and, as he is running, he falls into a river |
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| Tinney, Steve April 2018 , Woods, Christopher; Richardson, Seth; Osborne, James; El Shamsy, Ahmed eds | When the story resumes, Inanna is being told that Dumuzid has been murdered |
The bears strong similarities to the Sumerian love poems involving Inanna and Dumuzid, particularly in its usage of natural symbolism to represent the lovers' physicality.
21| and mention "the Queen of Heaven", who is probably a syncretism of Inanna-Ishtar and the West Semitic goddess | Inanna later regrets this decision and decrees that Dumuzid will spend half the year in the Underworld, but the other half of the year with her, while his sister Geshtinanna stays in the Underworld in his place, thus resulting in the cycle of the seasons |
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| The women would then climb ladders to the roofs of their houses, where they would place the gardens out under the heat of the summer sun | Ackerman, Susan 2006 [1989], Day, Peggy Lynne ed |
Since numerous lamentations over the death of Dumuzid had already been translated, scholars filled in the missing ending by assuming that the reason for Ishtar's descent was because she was going to resurrect Dumuzid and that the text could therefore be assumed to end with Tammuz's resurrection.
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