#kind of interested (though not very knowledgeable) about sumerian things and intrigued by saucy ancient poetry am like okay but where did
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the rabbithole this post about a pornographic sumerian poem is beginning to lead me down....
#so far: i see this post with screenshots from twitter which has screenshots of some rather saucy sumerian poetry. me being me and being#kind of interested (though not very knowledgeable) about sumerian things and intrigued by saucy ancient poetry am like okay but where did#these actually come from. i look through the comments to try and find clues. find out its supposedly from something called 'the courtship#of inanna and dumuzi'. look this up. find a website which just has one webpage with this poem but it has a citation. look up the citation.#the authors name is misspelled and the other author was omitted but find the book its from. look through it on internet archive. find the#poem but the whole thing generally seems too complete and clear to be a sumerian text. look at the back to see if theres an index. it says#this version is actually kinda cobbled together from a bunch of DIFFERENT sumerian love poems and then workshopped a lot to work well in#english. however. it does not list the poems its compiled from. and now this is where im stuck. and i have to go to class now#my next steps though probably trying to find the original tweet and hope the person who posted it sourced it?#cause the screenshots dont seem to be from that website/that version of it
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