Early Mesopotamian Religion

The fiction that the awe inspiring divine being inana was, in fact, the owner of all land and fruits of human toil in and around oruk permitted the goddess's stewards to devise a system of resource management. This is an essential elemental truth about early mesopotamian religion. It may not have been the truth that leo oppenheim was seeking, but it is the truth imparted to us by the sources that have survived from the fourth millennium b c.