Sophus Helle translated a work that addresses this deity as a “resplendent light” who is “as a flood descending upon those foreign lands.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this deity, the subject of an “Exaltation” asking her to settle a dispute between a priestess and a new ruler. In another work, this deity asks a god to punish a hero who rejected her by sending an animal that causes seven years of famine.
ANSWER: Inanna [or Ishtar]
[10h] This Sumerian author of the “Hymn to Inanna” and “Exaltation of Inanna” is sometimes considered the world’s first named author.
ANSWER: Enheduanna
[10e] Ishtar asks her father Anu to punish this hero of an epic poem, who slays the Bull of Heaven with Enkidu’s help.
ANSWER: Gilgamesh [accept Epic of Gilgamesh]
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