Lecture: She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 BC 

An astonishing and inspiring lecture. Thank you to everyone who has devoted your time, passion and presence to bring these works together and arranged to honor the Feminine principal, both in human and Goddess forms. We need to reclaim the spirit and power of voices such as Enheduanna to stabilize and nourish our world before it is too late. Standing ovation to everyone who brought this exhibition and lecture to the world!

Long live the name Enheduanna

How wonderful to see such an ancient tradition that celebrates women scholars and priestesses

what a fabulous lecture, I am awestruck

Great lecture!! I discovered Enheduanna some ten years ago when I realized that even though i have a very good and rather pricey education, focused on art and art history, i had no idea who the very FIRST named artists were… who was the first known author? I was of course familiar with the song of Sargon of Akkad, but i did not know the author’s name. Since then I have fascinated by Enheduanna, and her writings. This show at the Morgan sounds like it was amazing.. This lecture is so informative and insightful Thank you for posting!!! ❤️

wonderful explanation of the exhibition which so enriches our understanding of life in Sumer and Akkadia thousands of years ago. The verses read were mind expanding scholarly contributions for all humanity...

Super important information. Beautiful! Thank you!

Astonishing! Highly informative. Bravo!

Absolutely wonderful at every level! So informative that I had to add this to my history playlist!

Thank you! I am personally studying this time period right now! Thanks so much for posting this lecture ❤

Starts out a little wonky, maybe like a museum talk should be.... quickly moves to fascinating and brilliantly illustrated with cylinder seals and artwork. Great talk and great work Mr. Babcock and team! Saved this one to watch again latter.

הרצאה מעניינת. תודה רבה. חבל שבכל העולם לא מלמדים שכולנו משפחה אחת ! והמלחמות על טריטוריות דתות ואמונות מיותרות. את כל הוצאות החימוש ניתן היה להפנות לאיכות חיי אדם ולשימור כדור הארץ.

Fascinating lecture - thanks very much for posting.

Bravo. What a presentation. Enjoyed every second of it. Shared, liked and subbed.

subject of much interest to me, as a writer and free verse poet I do enjoy the ancients who added to our craft

So much information about Mesopotamian culture and religion! Beautiful seals and other carvings. Wish I could have seen this exhibition, but this lecture is the next best thing

It never occurred to me how the treasures from these ancient civilization could be filtered through current beliefs. It is a stone relief - how could that be misrepresented. When the lecturer pointed out the larger figure of the woman had been basically hidden by shifting the stone to show her dad, my jaw dropped. because - of course that could happen! The wet-nurse seal being assumed in the wrong way - and the discovers of the beautiful little status with a cuneiform tablet wondering bemusedly why of earth anyone would put a tablet on a women's lap - that the Moran Library & Museum team were the ones who found the mouth of Puabi in the beautiful lapis-lazuli seal. I suppose the place where the seal is usually kept probably have lots of seals, so maybe they just hadn't gotten around to properly photographing that beauty? Still... Anyway, wonderful job - I wish i could have visited this a marvellous exhibition - I went and determinedly googled the little status of the lady kneeling from the beginning because it caught my heart. They brought the priestess Enheduanna to life and made me love her 😊

Wonderfully illustrated lecture.

how wonderful!

This is awesome

Gracias. Gracias. Gracias

Thank you for sharing. What an interesting historical woman. Bless her and thank her.

Amazing thank you for this exceptional informative video..

Thank you so much.

Apart from what I referred to in my note in a separate comment, this material is exquisite. Thank you very much for sharing.

the struggle must have been epic...as it is today

this is amazing lecture

So sad that this wonderful work has only 34k views. Sumerian culture is still alive hope we can keep getting more information like this one. ¡¡¡Gracias!!!

Turned out really nice!

wonderful lecture

Around minute 15, the speaker identifies Puabi as Sumerian, but I believe the current scholarship indicates she was also likely of Akkadian origin

A mesmerizing lecture! I am all the more curious to learn about Sumerian and Akkadian cultures. Thank you for sharing this with the world.

The unknown goddess, the plump one, with four braids of hair, and grain sheaths coming from her shoulders.. I get the impression of water and stalks of something from the delta, suggesting she's Nammu.

Wow I have never learned that much thank you from Québec 😊

You are the very first to mention the STOOL. THE STOOL is not just about decorations look at ALL the STOOLS underneath it tells many things a whole career track could be about the STOOLS and what they represent.

Thank you for this lecture. Cylinder seals are an important part of our ancient history. They try to convey a message to us. It is important that we understand symbols that are shown more often, sometimes slightly different in form. At 10 min 46 sec we see at the top center a 'star' with a clear nucleus with a halo around it and an X shape cross in between a wavy shape. This is the symbol of Nibiru. Its cuneiform name is seen in the second vertical row at the top. That means god, star, heaven. It could be explained as the star that is the home of the gods. This is certainly not the symbol of the sun. When Nibiru crosses the ecliptic plane at a very high speed, it causes a huge tidal wave, floods, earthquakes and a bombardment of fiery meteors. Many people die, in fact a civilization is vanished. After that disaster mankind slowly grows again. At 45 min 52 sec we see above that people and animals are fighting. And an eight beamed star representing the crossing planet Nibiru. Below we see that Nibiru has passed our planet Earth, symbolized by the crescent moon. And woman are giving birth again. Its important to know that this eight beamed star and the crescent moon are not refering to the sun and the moon but to planet Nibiru and planet Earth.

I am Assyrian akkidin I am thankful that all shows are history

Wish I had been able to see this amazing show. I will seek a book about it.

22:00 the intertwined rosettes and stems reminds me of fallopian tubes, ovaries, womb and perhaps legs going down. Part of me wonders how much knowledge they had in ancient times or maybe it's just my modern imagination 🤔

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The true nature of Our Lady Enheduanna. She was a magical gangster, she commanded the Gods and the Monsters of the Gods. In every other breath she mentions her eagerness to slay and terrorize the disobedient or rebellious. She is the daughter of the world's first Emperor. She is fierce bloodthirsty and proud, like the lioness she was. I hear you roar, My Lady, and I bow my head to thee.

Nothing new, since I wrote about this since 2011! But than I was accused of sexuell intimidation, dismissed immediately, since mal colleagues were thinking that I was MAD. I published several books on Research Gate which disappeared!

My kids are going to being me next month I can't wait

How were the seals acquired?

I hear that "The Machine Stops" is a short story every lover of history need to read. I think Gilgamesh would approve.

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Twp musician,travel,love each other,in this world of sin,when we see love is dificult to handle,we see the bad only in the world ...Chanel is a singer of Central Coast,California from California..singing in two band in N.Y .and continue with her Art..and living from teaching elementary School,faund love in N.York...same all woman work,studie,and trye to be a good singer...and a good person for God and her family.

my dear Inanna makes an appearance on the final photo amongst your students: her image on the window :.

It's ALL about making beer.

How do you get people to donate to your museum for programs such as this. YOU DONT HAVE SOMEONE WHO CANNOT PRONOUNCE NAMES OR READ A PIECE OF PAPER as the OPENING

Thank you so much for sharing! Incredible & incredibly important for our time. But that "wheel symbol" on the simple cylinder, it's got a reason! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t7EAlTcZFwY.html Symbols of an Alien Sky (no ETs necessary but who knows) by The Thunderbolts Project part 2 ThunderBolts of the Gods. Extraordinary thought. Thank you so much again!

42.21 Maybe they were war clubs rather than plants then.

Ancient sumer looks like Ancient Egypt but on a budget

Talk starts 3:08

Abraham came from Ur...fascinating

BC not BCE?

Uh...you said, 3400 to 2000 b.c.? She is rather difficult for you all to pin down....Oh, that's right, people did have longer life spans back then, did 'nt they?

7:40 Not really. Monotheism has The Divine wearing trousers and cursing the Eve which is Life itself.

God blessed the Ukrainians who were able to surrender, most in retreat or surrender are killed by Ukrainians. I think it is God's preference for the populace of heaven that they recognize to a greatest extent that they are connected to everything, and I think that God shares this insight with the living. God might quite possibly not be demonic nor have those who are demonic act in discord disruptive of the peaceful superior state of heavenly existence, and so God might offer opportunities of redemption for living people in kindness if possible as example. It is quite possible that some folks think there are demons in heaven, which is just as well, but I really think God wants a general state of peace in heaven, and that this intent or formula is such that all people do learn to respect this in each other, and I am sure Ukraine will heal after it is not run by the US/NATO alliance. The war is an internationally leveraged and coerced operation. It is not at all in the interest of the USA, Europe, or Japan, or any other country, either, by the way. It is imposed on each of them by an external force unfortunately. That cabal is to be resisted and prosecuted where possible and necessary by people on earth as it is in heaven by God. The power of heaven evolves in 25 thousand year cycles with an agile mathematical swiftness. May we all be peaceful and without sorrow in heaven and strive for that alive. What literature do you recognize describing the resolution of this problem? Have you heard of the Chines story called Journey to the West? It's about the adventure of one Sun Wukong ("Monkey King", 孙悟空), and a Monk, and a Pig, and their adventure confronting evil. I love this story.

三星堆神像的眼睛

Love goddess... I think "love" is the wrong word for Inanna. Goddess of Passion, would be more suitable, because she also is an army leader, as well as goddess of the taverns and prostitutes. Love and passion are two very different things.

inanna...is the rain.....duanna is a witch.... woman...witch...

23:59 seriously you do not know who that is and NO they are NOT Plants!

They are are wearing 'sari' like Indian women wear now.

United? I don't think a subjugated people can be said to be united.

Love this! Butttttttt… we had Atlantis before this. I’m not sure why everyone says first of anything. They were way more advanced in Atlantis and this world has toppled so many times. The first will never be known, but pretty sure, it was probably a black woman that did it first no matter the subject. Again, thank you!!! I can never find much, if any info on Mesopotamia women here, in the USA, and I am so very grateful. 🥰🥰🥰

Women should rule!

*BCE *of any gender

So, basically a nepo baby.

Not easy to follow as this man speaks in a curious monotone. The lack of inflection makes him sound as though the lecture is being read aloud by a computer bot. Ironic, I suppose.

Atlantis is not corroborated, yet. Please correct this statement to First, we had Anatolia. Anatolia, or modern Turkey is the birthplace of civilization!

I am so disappointed in THE MORGAN LIBRARY. Why present something so important and start it out with a guy who has never read a sheet of paper as the opening to the presentation. Could you have gotten someone that could as least have read the presentation paper before he started filming. There are thousands of videos, millions of courses on how to start a presentation, how to speak in public on and on it goes so there is NO REASON for you to put up some guy reading the paper, not looking at the crowd or camera and cannot even pronounce the names on the paper. Seriously people need to be fired for this!

The ancestors of Enheduanna and women of Mesopotamia came from the Doggersbank which was in the Northsea! Removing my comments is looking away from the truth!

Gods 👉🏼Aliens

The big question now is where was the FIRST 'Mdso-Potamia', not since 3400-2000 B.C. but much earlier? POOT means in Dutch WOMAN who is WORKING in the ground which deals with 'wroeten' (what a pig is doing), which is related with 'vroedvrouw' which is a MIDWIFE. Meso comes from MAAT (friend) which is helixing in METGEZEL (friend), but than in (metg)EZEL which is a DONKEY since we were SILLY not beleaving these MAD (!) women) in which MAD also means SILLY, since SIL deals with SALT, whith SALTCHRISTALLS out of which CHRISTUS and than ALLAH is helixing. But ALLAH / HALLA (read from the right to the left) means UNIVERSE in Dutch HEELAL. So, 'halleluja 'is an indication for WAKE UP! Luja is like Dutch KLOK LUIDEN (ringing the bells), but a KLOKKENLUIDER means also WHISTLEBLOWER .. The first Meso-Potamie was the DOGGERSBANK in the Northsea (i.c. (H)AT-LANT-A which means HET LAND (the country) since COUNTING means TO TELL since it never was a TALMUD but a GETALMOED which deals with numbers, with MA-the-MA-tics (lunetic woman)!

Very interesting subject, but spoiled by non-stop praise. Stop telling us how wonderful she was and let us conclude that for ourselves.

Religious Harmony…. Are you serious have you NO understanding of ANU or the Creator of the ALL. Don’t make comments just to spew from your mouth!

30:18 Why do you keep goin on about a brother, husband, dad etc no male counterpart a person in her own right…. GEEECCCCHHHHHH keep showing your sexist ignorance! 18:12

Mother africa and it’s subsidiaries……….they are almost there………it’s taking some time…..😂😂😂😂😂😂…….but they coming round to their own truth……..I commend them……..Mother africa will reward you when finally they get to Nubia and Kush…….yes……you are your way to the full truth……congratulations!

Z Sitchen reads say ianna's lover was demizu. Demizu was killed by marduck.

Only men were scribes . She couldn’t write no women could .. tell the truth people .

@dragonfox2.058 This knowledge is already worked out since 2011 in more than 6000 pages! But every time as women wrote about these facts (!) male colleagues did deny. Women did not only discover writings since they did study starconstellations. They also were the first MA-the-MA-ticians. It all deals with the rediscovering of the universal SOUNDHELIX, which is a pattern of sounds (running clouds) that is the same in all languages, but not at the same time. With this KLANKHELIX (Dutch) we can make not only the past 'visable', but also the future. Femal priests in the Oracle of Delphi (not in Greece but in Kriek (the North of France) did developpe this system, but male 'scientists' never studied this technic seriously. Linguists did publish in Oxford and Cambridge several 'Handbooks'. I did accuse them of plagiarisme calling my last book 'The universal soundhelix of the prehistoric midwives stolen by famous scientists' (ISBN 978-3-9818022-4-5). It is a (p)ROVE of plagiarism, but (p)ROOF in Dutch also means piracy. Ans is like Johanna Schapendonk. I was working 26 years as the head of the Dutch Department at the Philipps-University in Marburg. Here I did found out that Jacob Grimm was wrong with his statement that words are getting shorter at the end (f.e. German 'der' is moving in Dutch 'de') since words are growing longer at the end and solve at the front like in I (k)now. The Board was getting very angry since I did tell my students out of Dutch is not only helixing German and English but also French, which would change the 'his-story' of West-Europe (ánd the Middle and Far East) in a 'her store' (not astrology but astro-logistics). To get rid of me they did accuse me of sexual intimidation and they ask the judge (as I went to court) to put me in a close clinic with medication. My lawyer did not get the permission to study the acts, but she was warning me to go back to The Netherlands (I am Dutch). Now in all these 'Handbooks" my theory is published by german, english and american linguists. They call the vanished sounds at the beginning 'splinters' or 'phonaesthemes'. All kinds of 'signs' on these tablets, one can find on historical coins, on pictures but also in landscapes or even 'waterdamp' (look at the picture on Wikipedia.nl where you can see a kind of a 'woman'). On the tablets shows here, you see some women with a very funny mouth like the mouth of a bird which deals with birth since it all were MIDWIVES.

Thank you Artapotheary53 for your nice words that I hear since 2011! At 2:23 in 'Sumerian Mythology Exploration That Will Give you Goosebumps and Leave your Hair Standing on End' one can see a 'bird' which is an indication for 'to give birth'. The bird is carrying a HANDBAG. I wrote about this in my book (2014) ISBN 978-3-00-039031-9. Now look in a programm with starconstellations where you see in the same time AURIGA (the head), TWINS (the baby), TAURUS (which comes from KOE (cow) which is helixing in KOEST (shut your mouth, woman!) and than in KOE/STIER (female cow and male bull) since the horns are symbolizing the ovaria. Beneath Taurus one can see the BREATHs and in ORION it is the UTERUS. But what is the HANDBAG? The amazing big woman in the stars is FISHING since out of TAURUS and ARIES one can see CETUS which is a FISHING NET. Look at this starconstellation of CETUS in Wikipedia.nl since it is a kind of a CHILD (a boy), but on the German site one can read this: Im antiken Mesopotamien sah man in dem Sternbild Tiamat ein Seeungeheuer, welches das ursprüngliche kosmische weibliche Prinzip verkörperte. In English: In ancient Mesopotamia, a sea monster was seen in the constellation Tiamat, which embodied the original cosmic feminine principle. Like in the bible the woman is 'guilty'. But is is not religion, since the prehistoric midwives (before the Jews) were not writing (!) about a Father God, but only about a Mother Nature. They called themselves the MA-DOGS (mother and daughter) which was helixing in DOG-MA (male rules), but DOG in Dutch means HOND which is helixing in HONDERD (> hundred) since words are growing longer at the end (adjectio) - I am a linguist - , but than in HUN DRIETJES (there three) since (a) vocals are helixing alfabetically a > e, e > i, i > o, o > u, etc). So 'their three' means 1-0-0, which is an algorithm ... our language is 'programmed', which I did call KLANKHELIX (soundhelix). Out of Dutch not only English and German, but also French is helixing, which turns around the history of Europe, since not Italian Roma was the first Roma .. ROOM means MILK and deals with the MILKYWAY. This big woman in the stars is Mrs. HATSCHEPNUT which is Dutch ... HET SCHEPNET (fishing net). So, not a Father God, but a Mother Nature is 'schepping' (shapes). De Schepper (male) is a SCHEPSTER (female) which means CREATOR.