"This day could be any other day.
No days in Enheduanna’s life are known.
A few facts are: Enheduanna lived four
thousand three hundred years ago in the kingdom where writing was invented, now
called Iraq,
And she was the first woman writer, the
first woman who signed her words,
Also the first woman who wrote laws,
And an astronomer, a sage of the stars,
That she suffered exile,
And in writing she sang to the moon goddess
Inanna, her protector, and she celebrated the joy of writing, which is a
fiesta:
like giving birth,
creating life,
conceiving the world."
~Eduardo Galeano, Children of the Days
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
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