Enheduanna was a Tall Priestess in Ur approximately 2300 BCE. She held this organize for about 40 kick. As far as we know, she was the preliminary writer in the modern believe of the word; shiny her individual lessons, mental state and experiences in her poems/prayers to the Idol Inanna not later than tale and action. She was the young woman of Sargon, the preliminary autonomous in the ancient world to create/control an development.
The organize of Tall Priestess of Nanna, (the Moon God of Ur), was an inexpressibly acme one, as he was the earliest God of the Sumerian pantheon at that time. Positioned in this veil by her initiation, apparently as part of his taking sides roll, Enheduanna tersely stated not the God Nanna but the Idol, Inanna, to be the ultimate living thing. So, as her initiation revolutionized the taking sides world of the time, she revolutionized the spiritual one.
In Enheduanna's existence, the veil of Inanna was perhaps particularly acme in part since of her ancient veil as Soldier Idol. She had hope been invoked for defeat in battle. Mesopotamia at the time was comprised of wide-ranging city-states that existed together in relative arrange. With Sargon, some rulers had crushed nearby areas and brought them under their direct, but no one had attempted to do extensively bigger.
Sargon coagulate, not later than war, a unified aver amid the city-states, the preliminary development. To verification this, unremitting confrontational action was conjoin. War, rather than battle, became the colors. As it's veil grew, it is logical that the veil of the Soldier Idol did too.
Inanna is a merged Idol, perhaps the most merged we know. Everything in the natural world converges in her and she is full, for that reason, of paradoxes, opposites; something to the same degree the accepted wisdom of Tao but in physical form. She is the experiment of the divine in the worry world, embodying all it's beauty and offensiveness. She is the scarcely diety in the Sumerian pantheon who embodies this accepted wisdom, in spite of this it is a straightforward and inexpressibly ancient one.
She, and this accepted wisdom in dominant, seems to accept emerged from ancient, neolithic traditions. Three millennia past the Samarrans, and formerly them the Ubiad culture, spark a accepted wisdom of truth as paradox. Routine truth from the to begin with periods of Mesopotamian history fit aspects of Inanna, perhaps pointer of the continuiation of a cult about millenia up to and preceding Enheduanna's time. She in fact says of Inanna in one of her poems, "You wear the robes of the old, old Gods".
The to begin with drug telling to Inanna found at Uruk take her as having four manifestations, day and twilight star/Venus, (day Inanna and twilight Inanna), good-looking Inanna, (androgeny was a central carry some weight in Summerian mythology and ritual), and Inanna of the Steppe, (perhaps hinting at partial start from a the population who migrated to Uruk from spanning mountains).
In the Sumerian pantheon, she was the young woman of the Moon double act Nanna & Ningal, Grand-daughter of Enlil and Lil, and Great-granddaughter of the preliminary divine double act, An and Ki. Through Enheduanna, she became bigger acme than any of these, the ultimate diety past whom, "all other Gods bend and quivver", Sovereign of the universe. She does this by marrying and/or rob the powers of all of the other Gods and Goddesses. Sometimes this involves trickery, sometimes trial, but she consistently comes out on top.
In her we can, as Enheduanna did, see ourselves, our world, all of high society. She reflects the best and critical of our enjoy at it's most basic, unbridled, searing love, midpoint inexperienced depredation, divine wispy and macabre dimness. She is full of contradictions, as we are, as form itself is. At her search is majesty, (with it's scarcely different majesty). Through her physical experiment, the majesty is brought to order. She reminds us, banish, that this order is an magic, something produced by the population. As alliance and it's programming are.
