Enheduanna
Akkadian princess; Sumerian high priestess of Nanna at Ur; poet and philosopher · Writers · Lived 2300 BC to 2300 BC · aged 0
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, She stirs confusion and chaos against those who are disobedient to her, speeding carnage and inciting the devastating flood, clothed in terrifying radiance.
Her wrath is a devastating flood which no one can withstand. A great watercourse, she abases those whom she despises. The mistress, a hurin bird who lets no one escape.
On the wide and silent plain, darkening the bright daylight, she turns midday into darkness. People look upon each other in anger, they look for combat.
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Enheduanna was appointed high priestess of the moon god Nanna at Ur around 2300 BC, likely by her father Sargon of Akkad, to bind his Akkadian empire to Sumerian tradition. Works like the Exaltation of Inanna name her as their voice, and for centuries she was remembered. Then she vanished. In 1927 Leonard Woolley unearthed an alabaster disk at Ur with her name and title inscribed, pulling her back into view. The problem: every surviving manuscript was copied six centuries after her death, in a later dialect, by scribes who may have mythologized her. Modern Assyriologists argue over linguistics and intent. What remains is the disk, the hymns, and the gap between them.
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