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depicting Huldra as one of the enigmatic Kurgarru, the attendants of the ancient Mesopotamian cult of Inanna, who are often implied in hymns and myth to be...not quite cishet by our modern-day western definition. In the myth of The Descent of Inanna, the god Enki creates the Kurgarru from the dirt under his fingernail, so they may go down to the underworld to save the goddess Inanna. A number of historians have theorized that the Kurgarru's "liminal gender status" may have been what allowed them to cross into the underworld, an unusual feat in Sumerian myth.