Apr 29, 2012 below are several poems written by the first known poet, enheduanna, who was the daughter of sargon i of akkad and a highpriestess of the goddess of love and war, inanna. The lady of the myriad offices ninmesara back to myths. Poems of the sumerian high priestess enheduanna, university. There she presided for forty years over the prestigious temple in ur. T his paper brings together a variety of poems and poem fragments.
These luscious, explicit poems are written from the womans point of view. I the en, enheduanna, carrying the masabbasket, i uttered a joyous chant, but now i no longer dwell in the goodly place you established. Enheduanna implies inannas equality with an, the senior god of the sumerian pantheon which hallo suggests politically equates the sargonic kings as adhering to sumerian norms and beliefs in order to justify akkads imperial rule over sumer 7. Sargon made his daughter enheduanna the high priestess for life of the mood god nanna at ur, and also the high priestess of the sky god an at uruk. Pdf enheduanna, the first known poet and originator of much of organised. The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named enheduanna, who lived in ancient mesopotamia around 2300 bce.
Inanna chez les sumeriens, ou ishtar chez les babyloniens, est le nom dune deesse. Jul, 2008 enheduanna nacio en mesopotamia, alrededor del 22802200 a. Came the day, the sun scorched me came the shade of night, the south wind overwhelmed me, my honeysweet voice has become strident, whatever gave me pleasure has turned into dust. Enheduanna was the daughter of the first king to build an empire, sargon. He appointed his brilliant daughter, enheduanna, to the position of high priestess at the temple of the moon god, nanna, in the ancient city of ur. Elle doit sa renommee a son activite culturelle et mythologique jamais egalee par une autre deesse du moyenorient. Pdf enheduanna ancient religious leader and poetess. High priestess to the moon god nanna, enheduanna came to venerate the goddess inanna above all gods in the sumerian pantheon. Enheduanna became powerful and wrote two long sets of hymns, or songs for the gods. She established the standards of prayer that would influence the hebrew. Inanna, lady of largest heart poems of the sumerian high.
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