Profile of Enheduanna, Priestess of Inanna

Profile of Enheduanna, Priestess of Inanna Enheduanna is the soonest creator and artist on the planet that history knows by name. Enheduanna (Enheduana) was the girl of the incomparable Mesopotamian lord, Sargon of Akkad. Her dad was Akkadian, a Semitic people. Her mom may have been Sumerian. Enheduanna was the delegated by her dad to be priestess of the sanctuary of Nanna, the Akkadian moon god, in the biggest city and focal point of her dads domain, the city of Ur. In this position, she would likewise have ventured out to different urban communities in the empire. She additionally obviously held some respectful power, motioned by the En in her name. Enheduanna helped her dad cement his political power and join the Sumerian city-states by consolidating the love of numerous neighborhood city goddesses into the love of the Sumerian goddess, Inanna, raising Inanna to a better situation over different gods. Enheduanna wroteâ three songs to Inanna which endure and which represent three very various topics of old strict confidence. In one, Inanna is a savage warrior goddess who vanquishes a mountain despite the fact that different divine beings will not support her. A second, thirty verses long, observes Inannas job in administering human advancement and directing the home and youngsters. In a third, Enheduanna approaches her own relationship with the goddess for help in recovering her situation as priestess of the sanctuary against a male usurper. The long content that recounts to the narrative of Inanna is accepted by a couple of researchers to be erroneously ascribed to Enheduanna however the accord is that it is hers. In any event 42, maybe upwards of 53, different psalms endure that are ascribed to Enheduanna, including three songs to the moon god, Nanna, and different sanctuaries, divine beings, and goddesses. Enduring cuneiform tablets with the songs are duplicates from around 500 years after Enheduanna lived, bearing witness to the endurance of the investigation of her sonnets in Sumer. No contemporary tablets endure. Since we dont know how the language was articulated, we can't concentrate a portion of the organization and style of her sonnets. The sonnets appear to have eight to twelve syllables for each line, and numerous lines end with vowel sounds. She likewise utilizes redundancy of sounds, words, and expressions. Her dad administered for a long time and named her to the high priestess position late in his reign. When he passed on and was prevailing by his child, she proceeded in that position. At the point when that sibling kicked the bucket and another succeeded him, she stayed in her incredible position. When her second decision sibling passed on, and Enheduannas nephew Naram-Sin dominated, she again proceeded in her position. She may have kept in touch with her long sonnets during his rule, as answers to parties that opposed him. (The name Enheduanna is additionally composed as Enheduana. The name Inanna is additionally composed as Inana.) Dates:â about 2300 BCE - assessed at 2350 or 2250 BCEOccupation: priestess of Nanna, artist, song writerAlso Known as: Enheduana, En-hedu-AnaPlaces: Sumer (Sumeria), City of Ur Family Father: King Sargon the Great (Sargon of Agade or Akkad, ~2334-2279 BCE) Enheduanna: Bibliography Betty De Shong Meador. Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna. 2001.Samuel N. Kramer, Diane Wolkstein. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth. 1983.