Sumerian texts
Anana hymn - an example -
Inana is the Sumerian goddess of love and war - she is the Akkadian goddess Ishtar - Sumerian cuneiform texts indicated that during the third millennium BC, the Sumerians developed religious ideas and spiritual concepts that left an indelible impact in the modern world to this day, especially those that reached through the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam - On the mental level, the wise Sumerian thinkers, as a result of their reflections on the origin and nature of the universe and its workings, devised a cosmic theory and a theological theory that involved a strong, firm belief, such that they became the basic doctrine and principle in most countries of the ancient Near East. On the practical and functional level, the Sumerian priests and clerics developed a set of rites, rituals, and celebrations rich in colors and diversity that were performed for the purpose of pleasing the gods and calming them, in addition to the emotional satisfaction of man’s love for festivals and huge religious scenes. The Sumerian texts mentioned that the advantage of hymns and prayers was that they were only performed in In the temples, and by the priests, there are supplications that are often accompanied by offering sacrifices and offerings represented by the following materials - bread - meat - dates - butter - honey - beer - wine - adding the burning of incense - chanting their supplications, prayers and hymns, which often begin, as is the case with Islamic supplications and prayers that begin with - In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful - And with symbolic and magical supplication, especially in the case of supplication and supplication - including the hymns of the gods - Inanna - Ishtar - as they represent the sky through the planet - Venus - and they are the most influential in the Sumerian hymns - The Beginning - To the one who came from the heavens, I say peace to her - To the Lady Inanna I say peace - to my ego, which shines like the day, mistress of the sky. I say peace - to the one in whom we place our trust - to the one who embraces the earth and the sky, to the virgin daughter of the moon - to my ego, I say peace - to her majestic character, to her greatness, to the trust we place in her - to her return. The light at evening - to the sacred flame that embraces the heavens - to its position in the heavens that is equivalent to the sun and the moon - from the lowest parts of the country to its highest places, everyone recognizes its beauty - you are the one to whom the heavens have bestowed power - meem - in the Sumerian heritage - meem - a force that moves the course of the world and everything in it. -----
Sources
The Book of the Sumerians - Their History, Civilization and Characteristics - p. 149 - Samuel Noah Kramer
The Book of Human Prayers from Sumer to Islam - pp. 17 - 19 - 20 - Faleh Mahdi