Description acceptable. This location’s gates were guarded by two twins who “tear out the heart and compress the kidneys” while chopping up passersby. It’s not a mountain range, but a trio of mountaintops are depicted in a pictograph representing this location, which was home to a god whose name translates to “An’s canal inspector.” The ability to obtain water in this location is dependent on the amount of children one has. A deity learned the secrets of sex after tasting the fruits of this location. Kakka decreed that a god must stay in this location after he made love to its ruler for (*) 7 days. A hero dropped his pukku and mikku into this location, whose residents include the galla and Neti. The abzu resides above this location, where a proud goddess once rotted on a hook on the Annunaki’s orders during her descent. For 10 points, dust and clay are consumed by the residents of what realm ruled by Nergal and Ereshkigal? ■END■
ANSWER: ancient Mesopotamian underworld [accept Akkadian, Sumerian, or Babylonian in place of “Mesopotamian”; or Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, Kigal, or Eretsu; accept kur-nu-gi-a; prompt on underworld, netherworld, or hell by asking “which culture’s underworld/netherworld/hell?”] (The twins are Meslamta-ea and Lugal-irra; “An’s canal inspector” is Ennugi/Gugalanna; the proud goddess is Ishtar.)
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