ENHEDUANNA - Priestess of the Moon

ENHEDUANNA 

Priestess of the Moon

It was some four thousand years ago

In the ancient desserts of URUK

Between the fertile crescents

of the Euphrates and Tigress

There lived an Akkadian High Priestess

A Poetess

Moon Goddess

Who went down in herstory as the first person

To sign her name

Her fertile mind travelled through gates of wonder

Transporting her thoughts across four millennia

As she longingly pondered the evening sky

Her pulsations

Her vibrations

Travel through space time

Her inscribed sagacity etched in stone

Conversations with the moon and stars

Deities up above
and ancestors from Afar
to reach you and I

Innana,

Her dual Venusian nature

Goddess of both  love and war

Masculine and Feminine

who can turn the hot midday sun into darkness

She herself adept

to descending into  the depths

of the dark underworld

To emerge soon after to the heavens above 

Innana

Venus will have a great destiny 

throughout the entire universe

I now know that over the millenia

We have both been looking 

at the same bright star in the night sky

Inscribing our names

our hopes

our desires
which will stand the test of time

Our hearts and minds

somehow entwined

We also share another inscription

our Ancestry

Written into our DNA

(c) Teresa / Divinia 27th May 2014
The inspiration for this write came after watching an episode of
 COSMOS a spacetime Odyssey epsode THE IMMORTALS

I also incorporated a line from one of her poems
"Lady of the Greatest Heart"

"Innana

Venus will have a great destiny 

throughout the entire universe"



Innana is the Sumerian Goddess she (ENHEDUANNA)
 often wrote about
Innana is a word for Venus in Uruk/Sumerian language
top picture from COSMOS episode, depicting poetess/priestess Enheduanna
 bottom picture is Sumerian cuniform writing of the portion of her poem I incorporated
also taken from Cosmos Episode.
Some words and phrases used in this poem were also incorporated from the Cosmos Episode.