The Sumerian Poem "The Hymn to Inana" speaks of "aurochs," a breed of now-extinct wild cattle.

Date
2023
Type
Book
Source
Sophus Helle
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Translation
Ancient
Reference

“The Hymn to Inana,” Sophus Helle, The Complete Poems of Enheduana: The World’s First Author (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 25

Scribe/Publisher
Yale University Press
People
Sophus Helle
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

Queen, huge aurochs!

Fierce in her might,

no one turns to fight

her

BHR Staff Commentary

The aurochs (ur-ox) is a breed of now extinct wild cattle, larger and fiercer than domesticated cows. (Ibid., 196n14)

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