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	Enheduanna
		Enheduanna is at once a mystical and heroic figure, one whose image may be destined to take hold of the popular imagination in an era of emerging feminism and the reclaiming of ancient feminine images.
		Enheduanna recites the me's, divine attributes, of and to Inanna, again exalting her to equal status with the supreme god of pantheon, An.
		Enheduanna's long-forgotten poem--only translated in 1968- also foreshadows her own history and the history of women in religion, literacy, and western civilization for the next 4800 years.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/Enheduanna.html (0 words)

	Enheduanna
		Enheduanna's works are complex rhetorically sophisticated compositions, and they challenge the existence of the traditional canon of rhetoric and thereby many of the origins stories and foundational assumptions of the humanities.
		The collaborative "I" of the creatrixes, Enheduanna and Inanna, merge.
		Enheduanna explains that she heaps the coals in the censer and prepares the lustration to receive her greater self, her transcendent self, the goddess.
	www.public.asu.edu /~rbinkle/enheduanna.htm (1231 words)

	Roberts - Enheduanna, Daughter of King Sargon: Princess, Poet, Priestess - Transoxiana 8
		Enheduanna's expulsion is not fully explained, but her fate corresponds to the goddess she worships, being exiled from the temple.
		Enheduanna sings songs of praise or paens and incantations to the goddess and plays a musical instrument, probably a lyre, as several are found buried at Ur, and one rests in the University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology.
		ra" Hymn to the Goddess Inanna by the en_Priestess Enheduanna" Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 65 RA 65 (1975) pp.
	www.transoxiana.com.ar /0108/roberts-enheduanna.html (5320 words)

	OFCGJ: Newsletter Article: Through the Gate of Wonder
		Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple at Ur around 2300 b.c.e.
		Enheduanna was lifting Inanna out of her established place in Sumerian culture, where she was already considered to be an important goddess, in order to place her above all other deities.
		Enheduanna was "discovered" in the 1920s during Leonard Woolley's archaeological excavations of the city of Ur.
	www.ofj.org /newsletter/2000/12-meador.html (2090 words)

	Enheduanna
		We aren't sure of Enheduanna's dates because we aren't sure of her father's dates; Sargon, the ruler of Akkad, a city-state in the north of Mesopotamia, conquered the southern part, Sumer, sometime around 2350 or 2300.
		The second essay is a discussion of Enheduanna's rhetorical presentation of herself and of Inanna in Ninmesarra (for information on a 2004 print essay on Enheduanna by Binkley, see under "Secondary sources").
		Sjoberg, Ake W. In-nin--sa-gur-ra: A hymn to the goddess Inanna by the en-priestess Enheduanna.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/enheduan.html (3612 words)

	Enheduanna
		Given that Enheduanna was witness to revelations of her new Goddess, a new state of consciousness, it would be vital to discriminate between this emerging dynamic and the old static (maternal) feminine, but particularly if then (as now) a pathological blockage in human development had to be corrected.
		Quite apparently, Enheduanna intuited the increase or elevation of civilisation (consciousness) to be represented as an upsurge in fertility (spirit), presumably in response to Ishkur's life-giving rain from the unconscious.
		Secondly it appears to be an attempt to 'civilise' the Goddess herself, or at least Enheduanna's perception of her, by recognising that her awesome destructive power coexists with a multitude of constructive, useful and gentle characteristics.
	www.zyworld.com /DrBernardSButler/Enheduanna.htm (7347 words)

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		Enheduanna was a Sumerian priest and poet who pushed image into clay with a reed stylus to make her poems.
		As are Enheduanna’s, Ninshatapada’s, Millay’s, Plath’s and Lorde’s, Carbet’s lines are seeded with details of comfort, home, and the peaceful place she once belonged but now fears might be slipping from her memory, the touch of clay, the stretch of the beach, the taste of salt, the sight of a humming bird, of a firefly.
		Enheduanna goes to sleep, has labor pains and in the morning interprets her own dream which becomes the poem "nin-me-sar-ra." Hallo calls these lines "creative agony" and says "the passage is unique in Sumerian literature in describing the process of poetic inspiration" (Hallo and van Dijk 63).
	www.ndsu.edu /RRCWL/V2/Dalglish.html (2475 words)

	Pagan/Heathen Spiritual Poetry & Prose--Beliefnet.com
		Enheduanna is the first writer known to have signed her name at the end of her writing.
		Most of Enheduanna's surviving works are hymns to the goddess Ishtar (daughter of the Moon), suggesting that her personal affiliation was to this goddess, even though she was officially a priestess of the moon god.
		In this hymn, Enheduanna gives the goddess a rank equal to that of Anu, the senior Sumerian god, and unites her goddess of love aspects with those of a stormy warrior goddess.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=57854&discussionID=454454 (537 words)

	Textual Dance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Enheduanna's poem to Inanna, pressed into clay over four thousand years ago, is the first document in history to be signed by its author.
		It is a pictograph that occurs often throughout her poem, a sign that is usually translated as an element of syntax, a part of speech that serves as a marker for the indirect object or as a verbal prefix.
		When she wrote this poem, Enheduanna was confident that her readers would be able to connect this grammatical element with its symbolism of fire.
	www.ndsu.edu /RRCWL/V1/Textual1.html (2137 words)

	Enheduanna
		Enheduanna’s Akkadia: Sargon I unites Akkad and Sumer, 2300BCE
		His daughter, Enheduanna, became the high priestess to the Sumerian moon and fertility goddess, Inanna, also known as Ishtar in Akkadian.
		The poem’s central theme is the praise of the goddess, not only because she is great and wonderful—standard fare in these poems—but also because her temple was invaded and then restored.
	www.writing.ucsb.edu /faculty/donelan/Enheduanna.htm (505 words)

	03.06.2001 - UC Berkeley scholars help translate poems of high priestess whom assyriologists identify as the first ...
		Meador began studying enheduanna's writings almost 20 years ago at UCLA and continued the work after she moved to Berkeley.
		Enheduanna was the daughter of King Sargon, who united Sumer in the south and Akkad in the north in the earliest example of military-driven empire building.
		As rendered by Meador, the priestess's words reveal an intimate, emotional connection with the goddess, wherein the worshipper's own struggles in life are reflected in her depiction of, on one hand, a cruel and destructive deity willing to lay waste to the land and, on the other hand, a loving source of all abundance.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2001/03/06_poems.html (799 words)

	herstory
		Enheduanna’s father Sargon, was the ruler of Akkad in Mesopotamia.
		I would tend to disagree, as evidenced by the volume of work put out by Enheduanna, and she is the one we know about, one of the women who managed to penetrate history.
		Sappho’s work reflected her own tastes and desires, which is what sets her apart from someone like Enheduanna who was a Priestess and composed her poems as hymns to a deity.
	www.sunysuffolk.edu /~slivc61/herstory.html (999 words)

	~~~The En-hedu-Ana Research Pages ~~~
		Roberta Binkley's First Impressions of Enheduanna's Disk in the Museum
		She wrote that at the end of the Sumerian temple hymns as it was the first time a compilation of hymns to all of the temples of Sumer and Akkad existed.
		For additional material, read Roberta Binkley's essays on Enheduanna
	www.angelfire.com /mi/enheduanna (0 words)

	Meador, Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart, University of Texas Press
		The hymns she wrote to Inanna constitute the earliest written portrayal of an ancient goddess.
		In their celebration of Enheduanna's relationship with Inanna, they also represent the first existing account of an individual's consciousness of her inner life.
		This book provides the complete texts of Enheduanna's hymns to Inanna, skillfully and beautifully rendered by Betty De Shong Meador, who also discusses how the poems reflect Enheduanna's own spiritual and psychological liberation from being an obedient daughter in the shadow of her ruler father.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/meaina.html (274 words)

	The First Known Creative Writer in the World - Mythology
		Placed in this role by her father, probably as part of his political agenda, Enheduanna soon declared not the God Nanna but the Goddess, Inanna, to be the supreme being.
		In Enheduanna's lifetime, the role of Inanna was perhaps particularly important in part because of her ancient role as Warrior Goddess.
		Through Enheduanna, she became more important than any of these, the supreme diety before whom, "all other Gods bend and quivver", Queen of the universe.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art43810.asp (728 words)

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		Although Akkadian born Enheduanna wrote in Sumerian as she was placed in the Sumerian city of Ur by Sargon.
		Inanna, known as the Venus star, was the Sumerian goddess of love and war and is identified with the Akkadian goddess Ishtar.
		According to a letter from Dr. Kilmer, "Enheduanna's religious poetry was certainly sung, and probably accompanied by a stringed instrument.
	www.people.vcu.edu /~djbromle/artviewsnet/2002/prehistoric/Enheduanna.html (215 words)

	Enheduanna - Definition, explanation
		She was eventually dislodged from her position by the local priests, showing this "imperial" appointment to be locally unacceptable.
		Enheduanna is known to us as the author of 42 hymns about Akkadian temples in different cities, a hymn to Inanna and the hymn "The Rise of Inanna".
		The hymns she wrote to Inanna constitute the earliest written portrayal of a goddess, and in celebrating her individual relation with Inanna, Enheduanna sets down the first existing account of an individual's consciousness of her inner life.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/en/enheduanna.php (345 words)

	Book Review: Inanna Lady of the Largest Heart - Mythology
		This was written by Enheduanna, a woman who was the most powerful religious leader in the most powerful empire in the world at the time.
		In Enheduannas' poems, she emerges and seems to speak directly to us across time.
		This literature, preceeding their full entrenchment in humanitys' worldview, (although Enheduanna's father, Sargon, was one of the first to bring this shift in perception about), is not.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art43813.asp (509 words)

	Enheduanna (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon, one of the most important leaders of pre-history.
		Enheduanna is the first writer, of either men or women, whose name has been preserved in history.
		Her Sumerian poems to Inanna, the goddess of love, show her close relationship both to her faith and to the deity.
	www.ivcc.edu /gen2002/Enheduanna.htm (94 words)

	Serpentina - Sacred Sites
		Enheduanna, the Sumerian poet and High Priestess, says to her beloved goddess Inanna:
		Inanna, no doubt, was in a fit of rage or pique, and Enheduanna had had enough.
		And, as Enheduanna learned in her attempts to calm Inanna, there is no magic key to emotional health.
	www.serpentina.com /sacredsites/sacredsites-sumer.html (1005 words)

	Department of English - ENG 301 Resources
		Much of her research the past few years has focused on Enheduanna, the first known author.
		Her interested in Enheduanna began when she stumbled upon a 1968 translation of her work, The Exaltation of Inanna.
		The strong personality and the powerful work of Enheduanna have dictated much of Dr. Binkley’s interest and research for the last 25 years.
	www.asu.edu /clas/english/writingprograms/eng301/students/binkleybio.html (231 words)

	The Woman Who First Signed a Text (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is also an activity that women have practiced since at least 4,000 years ago, when the first writer to claim authorship pushed the cuneiform signs into soft Mesopotamian clay.
		That writer's name was Enheduanna and she composed the first signed text in history, nin-me-ùsar-ra, a song to the female deity Inanna.
		Enheduanna wrote her hymnal verse by combining Sumerian pictographic signs which carry multiple meanings, creating a work which can be read with all the ambiguity that poetry demands.
	www.mediahistory.umn.edu /indextext/namesign.html (255 words)

	Enculturation: Cass Dalglish
		This is a virtual dance that poets, mythmakers, and mystics have been dancing throughout history; it is also an activity that women have practiced since at least 4,000 years ago, when the first writer to claim authorship pushed the cuneiform signs into soft Mesopotamian clay.
		That writer's name was Enheduanna and she composed the first signed text in history, nin-me-sarra, a song to the female deity Inanna.
		Openness and elasticity are essential to understand what the Sumerian poet Enheduanna might have intended when she pressed signs into clay, for the signs themselves, multivalent as they are, make the poem.
	enculturation.gmu.edu /1_1/dalglish.html (1135 words)

	NPR : 'Women on War'
		NPR.org, March 30, 2003 · The first known poet, male or female, was the Sumerian priestess Enheduanna.
		Ancient as they may be, Enheduanna's words of protest and peace still resonate today.
		Enheduanna's "Lament on the Spirit of War" opens Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to the Present, a collection of 150 writings by women.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1212320 (297 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Enheduana (2285 BCE)
		She helped her father solidify his political power by merging the worship of many local city goddesses into worship of the Sumerian goddess, Inanna,; raising Inanna to a superior position over all other deities.
		We aren't completely sure of Enheduanna's dates because we aren't sure of her father's dates; Sargon, the ruler of Akkad,; a city-state in the north of Mesopotamia,; conquered the southern part, Sumer,; sometime around 2350 or 2300.
		Whatever their political purpose, Enheduanna's hymns remained popular long after Sargon's empire had gone.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=6 (592 words)

	Inanna, Goddess of Infinite Variety by Johanna Stuckey
		To help him control "the restless and rebellious populations of the southern Sumerian cities" (Meador 2000: 49), Sargon appointed his accomplished daughter Enheduanna as high priestess and thus spouse of the moon god Nanna, tutelary deity of Ur, one of Sumer's most important cities.
		On the back of the now-famous disc found in the 1920s inside the Nanna complex near the residence of Ur's high priestess, an inscription names Enheduanna as "wife of Nanna, daughter of Sargon" and dedicates the disc to Inanna (Meador 2000:37).
		However, she is remembered today primarily as a great poet, indeed as the first poet in history whose name we know.
	www.matrifocus.com /SAM04/spotlight.htm (2317 words)

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