Enheduana daughter of King Sargon and sister of two twin brothers; as the daughter of the king who reigned she had the possibility of learning of how to read and how to write. Enheduana was the first writer/author in all history: she was the first person to put her name in her writings. She was an author and a poet; her writing would be written with a stylus on a clay tablet. Her writing made her famous all over Sumer. Sargon hoped that his twins were talented enough to be king as well as him, but they weren’t, so the king educated Enheduana to be the high priestess to Nanna. To work as a high priestess Enheduana had to move from her birthplace. She worked in the Ziggurat, through her the people of that region believed in many goddess and gods. At the top of the Ziggurat she sacrificed animals and burned incense and other perfumes. Enheduana’s most imported duty was to celebrated the New Year in Spring. She and the king or high priest (male) would act the marriage of a goddess and a human.
Enheduana was a high priestess for twenty five years and she also wrote 42 poems. As she wrote on clay tablets archeologists had seen that over fifty had written the same sentences on them. Tablets included sentences that tell about herself, her religion and politics.
So Enheduana has become the first author to be known by her name.
Enheduana proverb: “my mouth make me comparable with men”
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