Weekly Haiku: 02/26/2026

 This week's haiku, by the Editor, is about the world's first known author!

"Enheduanna –

First known author in the world!

Priestess and poet!"

Enheduanna (fl. ca. 2300 BCE) was the daughter of Sargon the Great, the founder of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia. Sargon appointed her to serve as High Priestess in the city of Ur, where the biblical patriarch Abraham would be born a few centuries later. Enheduanna composed beautiful sacred poems that were preserved on clay tablets in cuneiform writing; they were sung for almost 2000 years, until Sumerian ceased to be used as a sacred language after the Hellenization of the Middle East by Alexander the Great. In this image, we see Enheduanna on a balcony overlooking the city of Ur, whose skyline is dominated by a ziggurat (temple tower), where her poems were performed as sacred hymns. (Digital image created by the Editor.)