Machine derived contents note: Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia Acknowledgments -- Plan of Babylon -- Introduction to The Babylonian Creation -- The Babylonian Creation -- Note on The Sumerian Underworld -- Introduction to Inanna's Journey to Hell -- Inanna's Journey to Hell -- Introduction to Adapa: the Man -- Note on a Prayer to the Gods of Night -- A Prayer to the Gods of Night -- Glossary of Names
Summary
Translations of five poems dating from the height of Babylonian civilization in the second millennium B.C