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lamentations |
 | | Significantly, She is shown singing two laments, one before the city had been destroyed, in an attempt to avert the imminent destruction; and then afterwards, when the city had been ravaged, bemoaning the loss of the city and Her home. |
 | | The Great Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur demonstrates that lamenting was the job of the goddess of the city, not of the god. |
 | | And when Ningal cries over Ur, "Her hair, she tears out as if it were rushes: on Her chest, on the silver-fly ornament, she smites and cries "woe, my city"; her eyes, well with teras, bittlerly She weeps". |
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