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World History Encyclopedia<p>Inanna and Ebih is a Sumerian/Akkadian poem attributed to Enheduanna (l. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2194/inanna-and-ebih/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/article/2194/</span><span class="invisible">inanna-and-ebih/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Inanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MesopotamianLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MesopotamianLiterature</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>The Hymn to Inanna (also known as The Great-Hearted Mistress) is a passionate devotional work by the poet and high priestess Enheduanna (l. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2109/hymn-to-inanna/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/article/2109/</span><span class="invisible">hymn-to-inanna/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Inanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MesopotamianLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MesopotamianLiterature</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>Akkad was the seat of the Akkadian Empire (2334-2218 BCE), the first multi-national political entity in the world, founded by Sargon the Great (r. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/akkad/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">worldhistory.org/akkad/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Akkad" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Akkad</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Eridu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eridu</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>The lives of women in ancient Mesopotamia were regulated by a patriarchal hierarchy, but within this social structure, there were many who distinguished themselves and some who were able to assume positions traditionally held by men. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2084/ten-great-ancient-mesopotamian-women/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/article/2084/</span><span class="invisible">ten-great-ancient-mesopotamian-women/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArtemisiaIofCaria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtemisiaIofCaria</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mesopotamia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mesopotamia</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>The lives of women in ancient Mesopotamia cannot be characterized as easily as with other civilizations owing to the different cultures over time. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2081/women-in-ancient-mesopotamia/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/article/2081/</span><span class="invisible">women-in-ancient-mesopotamia/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AchaemenidEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AchaemenidEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hammurabi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hammurabi</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>Inanna and Ebih is a Sumerian/Akkadian poem attributed to Enheduanna (l. 2285-2250 BCE), daughter of Sargon of Akkad. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Inanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HistoryFacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryFacts</span></a> <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2194/inanna-and-ebih/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/article/2194/</span><span class="invisible">inanna-and-ebih/</span></a></p>
Cassana<p>A wonderful bit of playing and singing by Peter Pringle. From the video description:<br>"THE EXALTATION OF <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/INANNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>INANNA</span></a> was written in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Sumerian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sumerian</span></a> by the daughter of Sargon The Great, the High Priestess of Inanna in the city of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Ur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ur</span></a>, a woman by the name of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a>. What you hear in this video, are the first twelve lines of the EXALTATION, sung in Sumerian, and accompanied on a scale <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/replica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>replica</span></a> of the remarkable “Gold <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Lyre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lyre</span></a> of Ur”, discovered in the 1920’s by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley.<br>Enheduanna was born more than 4,000 years ago, and she is the first named author of a literary work that we know of. Her writings and her history are well documented on the internet, and if you are interested in learning more about her, I refer you to a wonderful website called “enheduana ‘dot’ net”."<br>The description also talks a bit more about the lyre, exaltation, and his approach. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AncientMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientMusic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/archaeomusicology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeomusicology</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/musodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musodons</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoLHfnr5Gc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=PSoLHfnr5G</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>Inanna is the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, sensuality, fertility, procreation, and also of war. She later became identified by the Akkadians and Assyrians as the goddess Ishtar, and further with the Hittite Sauska, the Phoenician Astarte and the Greek Aphrodite, among many others.<br /><a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Inanna/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">worldhistory.org/Inanna/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Akkad" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Akkad</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Aphrodite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aphrodite</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>Akkad was the seat of the Akkadian Empire (2334-2218 BCE), the first multi-national political entity in the world, founded by Sargon the Great (r. 2334-2279 BCE) who unified Mesopotamia under his rule and set the model for later Mesopotamian kings to follow or attempt to surpass. The Akkadian Empire set a number of &quot;firsts&#39; which would later become standard.<br /><a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/akkad/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">worldhistory.org/akkad/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Akkad" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Akkad</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Eridu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eridu</span></a></p>
Catherine<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@whencyclopedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whencyclopedia</span></a></span> I know him through <a href="https://union.place/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a> <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Enheduanna/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">worldhistory.org/Enheduanna/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Mira Kamdar<p>Fascinating article about the world's first documented author, a woman in Mesopotamia, by Elizabeth Winkler in The New Yorker.<br><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-struggle-to-unearth-the-worlds-first-author" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/books/page-turne</span><span class="invisible">r/the-struggle-to-unearth-the-worlds-first-author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenWriters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mesopotamia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mesopotamia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MorganLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MorganLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>The Hymn to Inanna (also known as The Great-Hearted Mistress ) is a passionate devotional work by the poet and high priestess Enheduanna (l. 2285-2250 BCE), the first author in the world known by name. The poem is significant as one of the oldest works of literature extant and for its content elevating the goddess Inanna above all others. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2109/hymn-to-inanna/?utm_source=Mastodon&amp;utm_medium=Zapier&amp;utm_campaign=whencyclopedia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/article/2109/</span><span class="invisible">hymn-to-inanna/?utm_source=Mastodon&amp;utm_medium=Zapier&amp;utm_campaign=whencyclopedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sumer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Inanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inanna</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enheduanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enheduanna</span></a></p>
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