the people of Uruk after she arrives with them in her boat. Some of them are indeed physical objects such as musical instruments, but many are technologies like "basket weaving" or abstractions like "victory". It is not clarified in the poem how such things can be stored, handled, or displayed. Not all of the mes are admirable or desirable traits. Alongside functions like "heroship" and "victory" are "the destruction of cities", "falsehood", and "enmity". The Sumerians apparently considered such evils and sins an inevitable part of humanity's experience in life, divinely and inscrutably decreed, and not to be questioned. List of mes Although more than one hundred mes appear to be mentioned in the latter myth, and the entire list is given four times, the tablets upon which it is found are so fragmentary that we have only a little over sixty of them. In the order given, they are ENship Godship The exalted and enduring crown The throne of kingship The exalted sceptre The royal insignia The exalted shrine Shepherdship Kingship Lasting ladyship "Divine lady" (a priestly office) Ishib (a priestly office) Lumah (a priestly office) Guda (a priestly office) Truth Descent into the nether world Ascent from the nether world Kurgarra (a eunuch, or, possibly, ancient equivalent to modern concepts of androgyne or transgender) Girbadara (a eunuch) Sagursag (a eunuch, entertainers related to the cult of Inanna) The battle-standard The flood Weapons (?) Sexual intercourse Prostitution Law (?) Libel (?) Art The cult chamber "hierodule of heaven" Guslim (a musical instrument) Music Eldership Heroship Power Enmity Straightforwardness The destruction of cities Lamentation Rejoicing of the heart Falsehood Art of metalworking Scribeship Craft of the smith Craft of the leatherworker Craft of the builder Craft of the basket weaver Wisdom Attention Holy purification Fear Terror Strife Peace Weariness Victory Counsel The troubled heart Judgment Decision Lilis (a musical instrument) Ub (a musical instrument) Mesi (a musical instrument) Ala (a musical instrument) See also Ancient Mesopotamia Enki Sumerian religion Me (cuneiform) References Citations Bibliography Emelianov, Vladimir (2009). Shumerskij kalendarnyj ritual (kategorija ME i vesennije prazdniki) (Calendar ritual in Sumerian religion and culture (ME's and the Spring Festivals)). St.-Petersburg, Peterburgskoje vostokovedenje, Orientalia. Farber-Flügge, Gertrud (1973). Der Mythos "Inanna und Enki" unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Liste der me (The myth of "Inanna and Enki" under special consideration of the list of the me). PhD thesis, University of Munich, Faculty of Philosophy; Rome: