Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart : Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (920 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292752423 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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With this information, she explores the role of Inanna as the archetypal feminine, the first goddess who encompasses both the celestial and the earthly and shows forth the full scope of women's potential.. The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named Enheduanna, who lived in ancient Mesopotamia around 2300 BCE. 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. The hymns she wrote to Inanna constitute the earliest written portrayal of an ancient goddess. High Priestess to the moon god Nanna, Enheduanna came to venerate the goddess Inanna above all gods in the Sumerian pantheon. Meador frames the poems with background information on the religious and cultural systems of ancient Mesopotamia and the known facts of Enheduanna
"That these poems deal immediately with the very popular 'goddess literature' and with an individual woman in a most important historical situation should give this work widespread appeal." (John Maier, SUNY College at Brockport, cotranslator of the Epic of Gilgamesh)
GREAT POEMS!!! N. Jacobs As someone intensely interested in Inanna, as well as the ancient Sumerian gods and religeon, this book was exactly what I needed to better understand some of the most important concepts.Three complete poems of Enheduanna are represented here, and just the first one, "Inanna and Mount Ebih," is well worth the price of this book alone. There are many other small po. T. R. LAVALLEY said Simply Beautifal.. As I am not a professional in the area of Archeology, I will leave that aspect to the other reviewers.However comparing Ms Meador's translation to some I have found online. Such as Lady of the Largest Heart Vs Lady of the Stoutest Heart. Reminds us all to clearly, it takes a real poet to translate a poet.Lady of the Largest Heart, is a poingant and tortured piece.. She missed the ternary pattern of the triple goddess The poems themselves are from a later period in Sumer than the tablets that transcribed the myth of Inanna. The three poems studied here are by a high priestess of Inanna, Enheduanna, historically attested in a later period. The reading of these poems is voluntarily anachronistic. The author definitely analyzes the poems but she looks at the female author speaking
Betty De Shong Meador is a Jungian analyst in private practice, who also teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies and at New College, both in San Francisco, and at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.