Who is Enheduanna?
Enheduanna is the mystical and heroic figure that holds the popular imagination in an era of emerging feminism. She is well known for her archaeological and textual sources. What makes her compositions strange is that it can be a bit hard to comprehend what she is trying to say through her work, but I think she is talking about the different goddesses. In Enheduanna’s text, there were many details she was talking about in her work. One of them I found super interesting was the Moon God/Nanna. It is the Sumerian name for moon god which originally meant “full moon” but was later changed into “crescent moon”. Nanna was connected through cattle herds in which they lived with people in the marshes of the lower Euphrates river. Lots of fertility of cowherds, rise of waters, growth of reeds, increase of the herd, and growth of dairy products increased. Gradually through time, Nanna became more human in which he came to represent a cowherd or boatman. In the end, the last king of Babylon, Nabonidus put the moon god on a higher position with the pantheon.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/545523/Sin.
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