BONUS RE-AIR: High Priestess of Ur, the World’s First Author, Enheduanna

This episode originally aired in March 2024. The first recorded author in all of human history was a woman, a high priestess, her name was Enheduanna. Pre-order Liv's Odyssey adaptation (!!!), The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. (geni.us/TheOdysseyBook) Submit your question for the next Q&A via email (mythsbaby.com/questions) or a voice note (speakpipe.com/LTAMB). Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby. Enter ourpodcast guest (mythsbaby.com/contact) form if you'd like to be on the show as a conversation guest!
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Sources: The Complete Poems of Enheduanna, the World's First Author by Sophus Helle; Enheduanna.org (enheduana.org). Things The Mesopotamians Did First (worldhistory.org/article/1859/mesopotamian-inv…); Very Baseline Ancient Iraq Bits: Wikipedia: Akkadian Empire; (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_Empire#) Mesopotamia (worldhistory.org/article/1859/mesopotamian-inv…).
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