patesi's

Updated: July 14, 2025

And he prayed to the goddess, calling her his queen and the child of the pure heaven, who gave life to the countries and befriended and preserved the people or the man on whom she looked with favour. "I have no mother," cried Gudea, "but thou art my mother! I have no father, but thou art a father to me!" And the goddess Gatumdug gave ear to the patesi's prayer.

H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery