(1) Queen of all the ME, too numerous to count, rising forth as resplendent light

(2) Woman , most driven, clothed in frightening radiance, loved by An and Uras,

(3) An's nugig, you are above all the great SUHkese-breastplates,

(4) You, who love the right aga-crown, who is suited for the en-priest-hood,

(5) empowered with all of its all seven ME --

(6) my queen! You are the guardian of the great ME!

(7) You have uplifted the ME, you have held the Me in your hand.

(8) You have gathered the ME, you have clasped the ME to your chest.

(9) Like a dragon you cast venom upon the enemy land.

(10) In the regions where you thundered like Iskur, Asnan no longer exists because of you

(11) Flooding waters surge down on such an enemy land

(12) You are the supreme one in Heaven and Earth,
you are their Inana!

(13) Unceasing raging fire,
you shower down upon the land of Sumer

(14) Queen, whom An gave the ME,
you ride atop a beast

(15) Authorized by the fate-determining word of An,
you utter words.

(16) The great rites are yours--
who else could fathom their meaning?

(17) Destroyer of enemy lands-
you empowered the storm

(18) Beloved of Enlil,
you let terror reign over the land of Sumer

(19) You stood prepared,
waiting to fulfill the orders of An

(20) My Queen!
All enemy lands bow down at the sound of your roar!

21. Under your fearsome radiance,
your terrible glare and storm, the people

(22) turned their steps toward you in mute dread

(23) -- of all the ME,
you had grasped the most terrible and deeply stirring--

(24) Mankind opened the gateway of tears, on your account

(25) They must walk the path to the house of all the great laments,
on your account.

(26) Because of you, all  had been ripped away
even before the battle.

(27) My Queen! With your strength a tooth can even crush flint !

(28) Like an invasive storm you barge in.

(29) With the howling storm you howl.

(30) With Iskur you thunder.

(31) With raging thunderstorm you do exhaust,

(32) while your own foot has never yet tired.

(33) With the harp of laments
one strikes up a song of lamentation

(34) My Queen! The Anuna, the great gods,

(35) Like terrified bats,
fluttered away from you to the top of the mounds of ruins.

(36) They could not withstand your devastating glance .

(37) They cannot stand up against the fright on your brow.

(38) Who shall soothe your angry heart?

(39) Your hostile heart has become too violent to pacify!

(40) Queen, has your soul really been satisfied?
Queen, is your heart really now filled with joy?

(41) Your rage does not cool, great daughter of Suen!

(42) Queen, greater than the enemy land--
who would dare take away any of your territory?

(43) You take the ‘mountain range’ into your territory:
its Asnan is no longer.

(44) Fire was set against its great gate.

(45) Blood flowed in its river for you,
its people had to drink it for you.

(46) Their troops, all gathered together,
had to surrender themselves to you.

(47) Even their elite troups, united together,
had to be struck down for you.

(48) Even their strong men- all of them,
had to stand before you

(49) In the town’s places of pleasure, a storm rages.

(50) They hunt down their best men as captives for you.

(51) The city, which would not say “This land is yours!”

(52) where the people did not say “He is your loving father!”--

(53) He has spoken your fate-determining word :
the territory is restored beneath your foot.

(54) Then care  disappears from within,
from their stall.

(55) That woman there -
she no longer speaks of love with her spouse.

(56) At night she no longer holds counsel with him.

(57) She no longer reveals her innermost self to him ,
which holds the hope of future life.

(58) Aggressive wild cow, great daughter of Suen,

(59) Queen, greater than heaven-
who would dare take any of your territories from you?

(60) The Great queen (NIN.GAL) of queens,
born for the rightful  ME,

(61) born of a fate-laden body,
you are even greater than your own mother,

(62) full of wisdom, foresight, queen

over all lands,

(63) who allows existence to many,
I now strike up your fate-determining song!

(64) All powerful divinity, suitable for the ME,
that which you have said magnificently is the most powerful!

(65) Of unfathomable heart [32], oh highly driven woman,
of radiant heart, your ME, I will list for you now!

(66) Into my fate-determining Gipar, I had entered for you.

(67) I, the en-priestess, I, En-hedu-Ana.

(68) While I carried the basket, I struck up the song of jubilation,

(69) as though I had not lived there,
they offered the death sacrifice.

(70) I came close to the light,
there the light became scorching to me.

(71) I came close to the shadow,
there it was veiled by a storm.

(72) My sweet mouth became venomous.

(73) That with which I gave delight, turned

to dust.

(74) My fate with Suen and Lugal-Ane,

(75) report it to An!
May An resolve it for me!

(76) Report it to An immediately.
An will resolve it for us!

(77) "The Lady will tear away the destiny of Lugal-Ane.

(78) At her feet lie hostile land and flood.

(79) She is truly mighty-
she will make the town tremble before her.

(80) Go (before the court),
so that she will be calm in her heart for me!"

(81) En-hedu-Ana am I,
I will now say a prayer to you.

(82) My tears, like sweet beer

(83) I now shed them freely for you, fate-determining Inana,
"Your judgement!" I will say to you.

(84) As for ASimbabbar,
concern yourself not!

(85) While changing the purfication rites of the fate-determining An,
he altered everything for him,

(86) he tore away the Eana from An!

(87) He showed no awe for the most venerable God (AN)!

(88) This house, whose abundance he [AN] was not sated with,
whose beauty he had not tasted,

(89) he [Lugalane] turned this house into a despised home for him!

(90) All the while, upon entering, as if he were the companion,
he approached me with envy!

(91) My driven, divine, wild cow!
You must drive away this 'someone',
you must seize this 'someone'!

(92) In this place where life is made possible--
what am I?

(93) This rebellious territory, despised by your Nanna:
An should force them to surrender!

(94) This city-- An should strike it down!

(95) Enlil should curse it!

(96) The mother shall not soothe her crying child!

(97) Queen! The laments which were struck up over the land,

(98) your ship of wailing should be left behind in the enemy land!

(99) And because of my fate-determining song -- must I die?

(100) I-- my Nanna has cared not for me [49].

(101) In the rebellious land,
they completely and utterly destroyed me.

(102) ASimbabbar most certainly has not passed a final judgement upon me!

(103) Has he spoken it-- does it mean anything?
Has he not spoken it-- does it mean anything?

(104) After he stood there in triumph,
he expelled me from the temple.

(105) He made me fly like a swallow from the window-
my life was consumed --

(106) and so I must go to the thorny undergrowth of the enemy land.

(107) He tore the rightful aga-crown of en-ship from me.

(108) Handing me a dagger, he said,
"This is now your ornament!"

(109) One and only Queen, beloved of An,

(110) Mighty is your fate-determining heart,
for my sake, may it be turned to its place!

(111) Beloved wife of Usumgal-Ana

(112) From the base to the zenith of heaven,
you are the great Queen (NIN.GAL),

(113) the Anuna have submitted to you.

(114) From birth you were the smaller queen,

(115) the Anuna, all the great gods--
how you have surpassed them!

(116) The Anuna kiss the ground before you with their lips.

(117) My own trial is not yet over,
but a stranger sentence surrounds me as though it were my sentence.

(118) To the radiant bed,
I did not stretch out my hand.

(119) Nor did I reveal the words of Ningal to that 'someone'.

(120) The radiant en -priestess of Nanna am I.

(121) My Queen, beloved of An,
may your heart be calmed for me.

(122) It shall be known, it shall be known:
Nanna has proclaimed no decree,
"It is yours" is what he has said!

(123) That you are as high as heaven, shall be known!

(124) That you are as wide as the earth, shall be known!

(125) That you anhilate rebelling territiories, shall be known!

(125a) That you roar against the enemy lands, shall be known!

(126) That you crush the leaders, shall be known!

(127) That you devour corpses like a predator, shall be known!

(128) That your glance is terrible, shall be known!

(129) That you raise your terrible glance, shall be known!

(130) That your glance is sparkling, shall be known!

(131) That you are unshakable and unyielding, shall be known!

(132) That you always stand triumphant, shall be known!

(133) That Nanna has not proclaimed (the decree),
that he has said, "It is yours",

(134) my Queen- it has made you greater,
you have become the greatest!

(135) My Queen, beloved of An,
I will announce all of your wrath![59]

(136) I have heaped the coals,
prepared the purification rites,

(137) The Esdam-ku stands ready for you-
will not your heart calm down for me?

(138) Since the heart was full, too full,
great Queen, I birthed it for you.

139. What was said to you at midnight,

(140) the cult singer shall repeat it to you at midday:

(141) "Because of your captive spouse,
because of your captive protégé,

(142) your anger has grown large,
your heart has not calmed down."

(143) The Queen, the strong one,
the ruler over the gathering of the 'en' [63],

(144) she did accept her prayer and sacrifice [64] .

(145) The heart of fate-determining Inana has turned to its place.

(146) The light was sweet for her, delight was spread over her,
full of abundant beauty was she.

(147) As the light of the rising moon (NANNA),
she too was clothed in enchantment.

148 Nanna came out  to rightfully gaze (at her)

Enheduana, najstarejša znana pesnica z dokumentiranim imenom, ki je ustvarjala od okoli 2285–2250 pr. n. št. Bila je visoka svečenica boginje Inane in boga lune Nane (Sin). Živela je v sumerski mestni državi Ur. Enheduanina dela, ki so zagotovo pripisana njej, vključujejo več osebnih molitev k Inani in zbirko hvalospevov, znanih kot "Hvalnice sumerskih templjev". Njej se pripisujejo tudi druga besedila. Enheduana se zato šteje za prvo po imenu znano avtorico v svetovni zgodovini. Enheduanna je napisala 42 hvalnic, naslovljenih na templje po Sumeriji in Akadu, Besedila so rekonstruirana s 37 glinastih tablic iz Ura in Nipurja, ki večinoma izvirajo iz obdobja Ur III in Stare Babilonije. Zbirka je splošno znana kot "Hvalnice sumerskih templjev". Tempeljske hvalnice so bile prva tovrstna zbirka. Enheduana v njih navaja: "Kralj moj, ustvarjeno je nekaj, česar ni ustvaril še nihče". Prepisi hvalnic kažejo, da so bile zelo cenjene in v rabi še dolgo po njeni smrti. Med njena druga slavna dela spada "Hvalnica Inani" ali "Nin-Me-Sar-Ra", v kateri opisuje svojo osebno predanost boginji in svoj izgon iz Ura. Njene pesnitve so imele pomembno vlogo pri utrjevanju sinkretizma med Inano in akadsko boginjo Ištar.