They called her Nisaba, though, depending on the place and the era, she went by other names, too: Nidaba, Naga, Se-Naga…The goddess of grain and harvest, the one who holds sway over the rain, directing every drop that falls from the sky. In her pictures, she carries, in one hand, a stalk of wheat—the symbol of life, renewal and rebirth; in her other hand, she holds a gold stylus and a tablet of lapis lazuli. The roots of agriculture and the roots of literature are intertwined, and it is none other than Nisaba who braids them like a lock of her hair. Nisaba is born of the union of heavens and
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