This is a recording of Ištar's Descent to the Netherworld, lines 1-125, read by Martin West.
A translation of the incantation can be found at goo.gl/FqQWm5
This is part of the Babylonian and Assyrian Poetry and Literature: An Archive of Recordings project at SOAS University of London.
You can find out more about this project at www.soas.ac.uk/baplar/

Ishtar's Descent to the Netherworld, lines 1-125, read by Martin West

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Music credits:

Opening theme - Bamanaya (trad). performed on Bobo balafon by Wali Coulibaly (age 6) and Daniel Dembele (age 10). Recorded in Bamako in 2015 by Lucy Durán .
Excerpt from Sattelites, original composition by Garth Knox (2016 Inner Sunset Publishing)
Closing theme - excerpt from Sunjata's Time, original composition by Fodé Lassana Diabaté (2016 Inner Sunset Publishing)

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Ishtar's Descent to the Netherworld, lines 1-125, read by Martin West

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