
Chaos Reigns
Poetry Off the Shelf
The Exaltation to Inana
Hidwana is exiled from Ur after an uprisings led by a person named Lukalane. She prays to the moon god Nana and his daughter Inana, but he does not seem to answer her. So instead in Hidwana prays to his daughter, Inana and saying, won't you do something instead? And so this effectively becomes a poem that is very much about itself. But like spoiler alert, she does in the end manage to write this poem.
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