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the first author
Enheduanna
History is littered with authors. Enheduanna was the world’s first identifiable one. Born more than 4,000 years ago, she was a poet and princess in ancient Mesopotamia. She was also a priestess at a temple dedicated to a Mesopotamian moon god, Nanna. Enheduanna lived in a city situated in what is now southern Iraq.
The daughter of a king, she penned a significant body of work. Her hymns and poems were composed in cuneiform, an early form of writing on clay tablets. Some of her most notable poems revolve around the goddess Inanna.
Betty DeShong Meador translated a selection of Enheduanna’s poems dedicated to Inanna. In an interview with the University of California at Berkeley, Meador noted the complexity and force Enheduanna ascribes to the goddess.
In one poem, Enheduanna writes,
Lady of blazing dominion
clad in dread
riding on fire-red power
Inanna
holding a pure lance
terror folds in her robes
flood-storm-hurricane adorned
she bolts out in battle
plants a standing shield on the ground
“In Enheduanna’s poetry, Inanna is both fierce and cruel, loving and kind,” Meador told UC-Berkeley. “In our society, women are not supposed to be like that.”
“But this is who we are as human beings,” Meador added. “Both men and women have these violent emotions, and if you are taught to suppress the knowledge of these harsh feelings, you live in too narrow a range.”
Note: Since there is no record of what Enheduanna looked like, this illustration represents the artist's interpretation.
(( courtesy of The Lily ))
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