"Go to the underworld.
Enter the door like flies.
Ereshkigal, the Queen of the Underworld, is moaning
With the cries of a woman about to give birth.
No linen is spread over her body.
Her breasts are uncovered.
Her hair swirls about her head like leeks.

When she cries, 'Oh! Oh! My inside!'
Cry also, 'Oh! Oh! Your Inside!'
When she cries, 'Oh! Oh! My outside!'
Cry also, 'Oh! Oh! Your outside!'
The queen will be pleased.
She will offer you a gift.
Ask her only for the corpse that hangs from the hook on the wall.
One of you will sprinkle the food of life on it.
The other will sprinkle the water of life.
Inanna will arise.'"
—from Robert Wenke & Deborah Olszewski in Patterns in Prehistory:  Humankind's First Three Million Years, Oxford University Press, 2007, p.352, from Wolkstein and Kramer in Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth (full reference to come)