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These include themes of celestial healing, as well as intimacy in the relationship between human and deity and similarity between this rapport and the bond with a relative or lover. This paper proposes that there is additional sexual and astral symbolism within the ritual that resumes and resolves motifs developed throughout the poem and its companion text, Lugalbanda and the Mountain Cave. A partial explanation of the passage has been provided by Jeremy Black, who posits that the ritual is an allegory that refers back to previous elements of the story in order to bring the whole content of the poem to a coherent conclusion.

The goddess responds with a lengthy description of a ritual whose meaning and literary function is obscure. ISAW Papers 18.Ībstract: At the end of the Sumerian narrative poem Lugalbanda and the Anzu Bird, Lugalbanda asks the goddess Inana how his king, Enmerkar, can win back her favor and thereby secure success in battle against a neighboring city-state. Proceedings of a Workshop at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, May 16-17, 2016.

Cult Practices in Ancient Literatures: Egyptian, Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Narratives in a Cross-Cultural Perspective. This article can be downloaded as a single file ISAW Papers 18.4 (2020) The Fish and the Tamarisk: Sexual and Celestial Symbolism in “Lugalbanda and the Anzu Bird” Ainsley Hawthorn, Yale University ©2020 Ainsley Hawthorn except where indicated text and figures distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) license. More information about ISAW Papers is available on the ISAW website. This article is available at the URI as part of the NYU Library's Ancient World Digital Library in partnership with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW).