 The continued fecundity of the land was ensured by the annual performance of the sacred marriage ritual in which the king impersonated Dumuzi-Ama-ušumgal-ana and a priestess substituted for the part of Inanna.According to the "šir-namursaḡa", the hymn composed describing it in 10 sections ("Kiruḡu"), this ceremony seems to have entailed the procession of