The Goddess of Writing Speaks By Nina Silver Author Merlin Stone tells us about Nidaba, the Sumerian Goddess of writing and author of the sacred laws that judge the righteousness of humankind. Nidaba, with seven arms, was perceived as the Holy Cobra and is credited with having created the stylus from marsh reeds. It is your heart that is inscribed:
the sage within has always written what is true.
What is truth? You ask.
Can it be found
on clay tablets,
etched in soil
outside the ancient shrines? You pick up a reed still singing
from the swamp,
fresh from plunking.
The moist clay, magick-filled,
breathes life.
Your hand, trembling,
performs its rituals dance:
down
stroke
slant sideways
curving
its way through the ancient mind.
The scribe speaks her vision. What is vision?
Nothing less
than that
which is
of the human heart. The human heart is the one
who speaks.
The hand merely obeys. —Nina Silver | 
