If there is no courtroom drama waiting in the end, how are we to understand it all? It would be strange if the Netherworld construction simply existed as described, meaning an unending shadowy but goal-less sojourn in the company of an ever-swelling multitude of drifting spectres. The purpose of it all, by and large, is not considered by writers on the Mesopotamian scene either, but once posed it compels an answer.
