On Sep 29, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> ..., ever since Ur, where they found "plough
> my vulva, man of my desire!" written on a wall or a piece of clay
> tablet, I forget which. Though I do wonder about that translation.
>
>
The best fersion of that I know is "The Vulva Song of Inanna" (Jerome
Rothenberg’s English version, after Bette Meador, from the Sumerian
text & literal translations provided by Renata Leggit. See
Technicians of the Sacred p. 322). The line that worries you isn't in
that one, but here's the roughly 2nd part:
I who am lady sing to
praising him
the chanter chants it
I who am Inana
give my vulva song to him
o star my vulva of the dipper
vulva slender boat of heaven
new moon crescent beauty vulva
unploughed desert vulva
fallow field for wild geese
where my mound longs
for his flooding
hill my vulva lying open
& the girl asks:
who will plough it?
uvlva wet with flooding
of myself the queen
whio brings this ox to stand here
"lady I will plough for you
"our king Dumuzi he will plough for you
o plow my vulva o my heart
my holy thighs are soaked with it
o holy mother
Nicole Peyrafitte sings it in performance & it is very effective and
powerful -- except in England when she last did it there 2 years ago
& the boys freaks & the girls froze.
Pierre
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"Fascism should more properly
be called corporatism,since it is the
merger of state and corporate power."
— Benito Mussolini
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Pierre Joris
244 Elm Street
Albany NY 12202
h: 518 426 0433
c: 518 225 7123
o: 518 442 40 71
Euro cell: 011 33 6 79 368 446
email: [log in to unmask]
http://pierrejoris.com
Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com
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