Happy Fields

The nanu- {riven by the Assyrio-C'haldeans to their Klysian l"'iel(ls. which were intermin{rled with their Hades. As Mr. Boscawen tells iiis readers — "The Kin{Tdom of the underworld was the realm of the pod Ilea, and the Hades of the Assyrian le{rends was placed in the underworld and was ruled over by a jroddess. Nin-Ki«ral, or 'the Lady of the Great Land'. She is also called Allat." A translated inscription states: — "After the g:ifts of these i)re.sent days, in the fea.sts of the land of the silver sky, the resplcJident courts, the abode of blessedness, and in the li{rht of the napi)y Fields, may he dwell in life eternal, holy, in the presence of the gods who inhabit Assyria". This is worthy of a Christian tumulary inscription. Ishtar, the beautiful goddess, descended into Hades after her luloved Taiiunuz. and found that this dark place of the shades had seven spheres and seven gates, at ea<-li of whieli she had to leave sometiiing belonging to her.