To the land of the dead.
With mourning was he filled on the day
When he fell into great sorrow.”[31]
According to another story of the fate of Tammuz, Ištar was the victim of sudden and violent passion, and in a fit of anger for disregard of her command she had smitten him down, just as she crushed the allallu-bird she loved:
“Thou didst crush him and break his pinions.
In the woods he stands and laments,
‘O my pinions’.”[32]
Also as she cast out of her sight the lion:
“Thou didst love a lion of perfect strength,
Seven and seven times thou didst bury him in the corners.”[33]