• Catoblepas
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    To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna.

    To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna

    -Hymn to Inanna by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, 23rd century BCE

    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Is this the daughter who got her father so drunk he gave her all the things that make up Civilization and fled to start her own city?

    • BabyVi@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The irony of her being the original Sargon of Akkad’s daughter is kinda funny to me.