When Ishtar heard this, she fell into a bitter rage. She went up to Heaven to see her father Anu. Ishtar besought her father:

“ My father, give me the bull of Heaven to destroy Gilgamesh

And set his house afire.

If you refuse to give me the bull of Heaven,

I will break in the doors of hell and smash the bolts,

I shall bring up the dead to devour the living,

The hosts of dead will outnumber the living.”

*Tammuz: the “Babylonian” has become known as Adonis like Ishtar became Aphrodite in Greek mythology. Ishtar went down to the underworld to fetch her lover in “Ishtar’s descent to the underworld”. In all Semitic languages, “Tammuz” means the month of July