The Beginning Poem by Sadek Mohammed

This is how the story began:

Nammu,
the Mistress of the primal sea,
created An and Ki.

An was heaven.
Ki was earth.
Heaven and earth loved their mirth.
Banded together.
They clasped each other.
Like uncle Hisham and aunt Aseel
They sired a son.
They called Enlil.

Enlil raped Ninlil.
Ninlil bore Nanna.
Nanna remained single,
then he married Ningal.
Ningal and Nanna fathered Innana.

Innana
Montana.
Americana.
Georgiana.
Sultana.
Iguana.
Manna.
Havana.
Diana
Botswana.
Ghana.
Banana.

From that whore
flared the war.