ENHEDUANNA(fl. 2300-2275 BCE)

Daughter of Sargon, in flesh, or just

like those King's Sons of Kush in Kemet,

a loyal official for an imperial regime?

We don't know, but we tend to choose

the first - so thrall are we still to

royalty. Even the poems, the hymns -

are they really by you? Or composed

by your priestesses in your name,

multiplied like Omar Khayyam's

were when a corpus became a genre?

We don't know. But we have them,

in your name if not by your hand,

we have the outlines of an era,

we have the political and cultural

geography of Sumer and Akkad. From
these we try to call forth your shadow.

Perhaps this is enough, o high

priestess of Inanna and Nanna.

11.11.2017