/lit/ - Literature

>>18150797
Two great anthologies of Mesopotamian literature are:
The Literature of Ancient Sumer by Jeremy Black
Before the Muses by Benjamin Foster

- and then you'd do your self a disservice by not grabbing Andrew George's Gilgamesh translation.

Kneel.

>>17599279
>he doesn't have a tutelar-sexual relationship with his doting and overbaring goddess

>>16431990
>What's the first depiction of an incel in literature?
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr133.htm
>The poem Inanna and Shukaletuda begins with a hymn to Inanna, praising her as the planet Venus. It then introduces Shukaletuda, a gardener who is terrible at his job and partially blind. All of his plants die, except for one poplar tree. Shukaletuda prays to the gods for guidance in his work. To his surprise, the goddess Inanna sees his one poplar tree and decides to rest under the shade of its branches. Shukaletuda removes her clothes and rapes Inanna while she sleeps. When the goddess wakes up and realizes she has been violated, she becomes furious and determines to bring her attacker to justice. In a fit of rage, Inanna unleashes horrible plagues upon the Earth, turning water into blood. Shukaletuda, terrified for his life, pleads his father for advice on how to escape Inanna's wrath. His father tells him to hide in the city, amongst the hordes of people, where he will hopefully blend in. Inanna searches the mountains of the East for her attacker, but is not able to find him. She then releases a series of storms and closes all roads to the city, but is still unable to find Shukaletuda, so she asks Enki to help her find him, threatening to leave her temple in Uruk if he does not. Enki consents and allows Inanna to "fly across the sky like a rainbow". Inanna finally locates Shukaletuda, who vainly attempts to invent excuses for his crime against her. Inanna rejects these excuses and kills him.