Talk:Enheduanna

message: ENHEDUANNA WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST WRITERS OF HER TIME —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.196.0.155 (talk • contribs) 
... probably. The only one now known, in fact. Andrew Dalby 10:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Proposal to rename page En-hedu-ana, with all appropriate redirects. Breaking up agglutinative Sumerian words into component parts is pretty standard (e.g. see Cuneiform_script#Transliteration). Sumerophile (talk) 00:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK I will move the page tomorrow. Sumerophile (talk) 01:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved. Sumerophile (talk) 21:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to rename page En-hedu-ana 

message: Could I propose we change it back to 'Enheduanna'? That is the form most commonly used (along with Enḫeduanna) in scholarly and general publications (In fact i cannot recall it ever being written 'En-hedu-ana'. Breaking up Sumerian words is generally only done in transliterations, not translations. Furthermore 'Enheduanna' is transliterated 'en-ḫe2-du7-an-na' in the ETCSLhttp://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?searchword=l=en-he2-du7-an-na%20t=PN&charenc=gcirc, the main linked source for translations and transliterations of her work. The transliterated form is generally only used when dealing with a transliteration and NOT a translation, but as no transliteration apart from the titles of some of her works is used here I see no reason for it and feel it is confusing for a general audience unfamilair with the Sumerian language, especially as if En-hedu-ana is intened to be taken as a transliteration when it is incorrect. 3mbc (talk) 00:56, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll vote for that. At the moment it looks rather ridiculous. Rothorpe (talk) 23:09, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Change it back to "Enheduanna"

message: I was wondering about this expression, does it mean something like "may your heart rejoice"? For most modern readers cold and its synonyms would mean something negative, "cool heart" being an antonym of "warm heart" etc., but in my Egyptology classes I've learned that a similar expression was used in Egypt as a synonym for joy (it's easy to see cool as a positive thing if we think of the hot climate of those places). – Alensha talk 01:47, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: May your heart cool off for me

message: == As a priestess and religious figure, En-hedu-ana came to honor Inanna above all the other deities of the Sumerian pantheon and greatly assisted in the merging of the Akkadian Ishtar with the Sumerian Inanna among Sumerian theology and religious thought. Thus she greatly changed common religious practices in Sumerian religion.[citation needed] ==,
I have deleted this as whilst it is tagged citation needed (I can find nothing to back it up and feel personally it is untrue) I feel it is best being removed as it makes such a bold statement on a very important issue with absolutely nothing to back it up. If anyone wishes to reinstate it feel free to if you can find a reliable citation. As it stands I feel it too bold a statement, and potentially misleading to be left up with no citation as it is essentially opinion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 3mbc (talk • contribs) 22:54, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Bold statement deleted

message: I have expanded the article, adding more on the archaeological and textual evidence for Enheduanna and general cleaning up. 3mbc (talk) 00:09, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  general clean up 

message: Why is this, her contribution as a writer, in fact the first known writer, not the first information posted about her?  She is introduced not as a writer, but as a daughter.  This is a sexist convention of the age-old patriarchal narrative, in which women are possessions either of their fathers or husbands, or are mothers to the people(men) whose deeds are acknowledged without such a demeaning qualification.  Why is this convention perpetuated here?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vtigli (talk • contribs) 13:37, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that Enheduanna's identity as the first poet should be the first thing mentioned in the article and her status as the daughter of Sargon should come later. I have already implemented these changes. You may review the revised lead paragraph and make any further changes you think are necessary. --Katolophyromai (talk) 13:51, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

text: I have no idea what you are talking about. The article still clearly states that Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon; in fact, it still says so in the very first paragraph. All I changed was I made it so that the article says she was the first recorded poet before stating that she was the daughter of Sargon, since her status as a poet is more historically significant than her status as the daughter of Sargon. --Katolophyromai (talk) 15:25, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Weight given to "first named author"

message: I am planning to bring in some more information from the chapter by Roberta Binkley on how Enheduanna can be viewed as early rhetorical theorist. Dr. Vetter (talk) 15:26, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planned changed to Enheduanna page  

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: If you have a look just above this section header, you will see that I wrote a moderately detailed reply to someone who, it turns out, abandoned their account several months ago. This means I am, I fear, rather less likely to receive a constructive reply from them in the near future. Instead, I am just going to go ahead and start working on making the additions I detailed, which I will refrain from repeating since they are just right up there. I will correct a mistake I made, though: it was not Meador herself who placed Enheduanna alongside Sappho, Emily Dickinson, and H.D.; it was Grahn, in the foreword to Meador's first book of translations.  𒆳𒄷 (kurmušen) 08:27, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanding "Influence and legacy" section