Stub - 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
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Query: 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
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Not until c. 2750 BC did Sumerian rulers emerge out of the temple priesthood as administrators (en) to become increasingly secular palace rulers, at first the ensi and then, upon conquering other towns as an army leader, a lugal.[1]
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- ↑ Note the controversy over these words. Nissan, etc. For our purposes what is more important is the actual evolution, not merely the terminology. And this secularization can be shown, whatever the specific meaning of the words was to third-millennium BC Sumerians.
