Nothing calls forth our own vocal power more than the stories of early women whose powerful voices ring out across the millennia. Today, we’ll meet a Mesopotamian high priestess who is the world’s earliest-recorded and named writer — Enheduanna. As a ritualist, poet and also a political ally Sumer’s king (her father), this brilliant woman left us a library of stunning devotional poetry that still brings chills to modern readers when rendered into English. These amazing poems ... one set to the Goddess Inanna and another set describing many temples around Sumer, among others ... lay buried in the sands of Iraq for centuries, in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur. Thanks to tablets of clay unearthed in the early 20th century and following, we today have the privilege of meeting this woman again. And, of allowing her story and her life to speak to us … inspiring us to speak freely and leave messages that might last another four thousand years. Who knows?