Enheduanna was also known as a moon priestess and as a high priestess to the moon god, Nanna. A priestess was often assigned to a particular god and responsible for performing rituals and reciting or singing sacred praise to this divine being.
Nanna is also called Suen or Sin. He is also identified as the father of Inanna, to whom Enduanna is equally or even more devoted.
The famous ceremonial disk, known as The Disk of Enheduanna, clearly links Enheduanna as Nanna's priestess, but some
scholars describe their relationship as a spiritual marriage.
It is indicated that Enheduanna's father also thought a relationship between his high priestess daughter and this primary god would be most advantageous for the Akkadian Empire.
It was the job of the priestesses and priests to make offerings and sometimes placate the gods and goddesses, who each clearly had a personality of their own.
But there was a terrible time in Enheduanna's life, when her father's rule began to fall apart, that she was removed from her duties and home. In The Exaltation of Innana, she seems to blame part of the problem on her spiritual husband, while also calling for help. This is a version of that part of the hymn presented by Roberta Binkley in Enheduanna, Daughter of King Sargon: Princess, Poet, Priestess. She titles this segment, "Condemning the Moon God, Nanna."
"As for me, my Nanna ignores me.
He has taken me to destruction,
To the alleys of murder.
Ashimbabbar has not judged me wrong.
If he had, what do I care?
If he had, what do I care?
I am Enheduanna.
I was triumphant, glorious,
But he drove me from my sanctuary.
He made me escape like a swallow
From the window.
My life is in flames.
He made me walk through the brambles
On the mountain.
He stripped me of the crown correct
For a high priestess.
He gave me a dagger and a sword,
And said:'Turn them against your own body.
They are made for you.'"
This very sad passage was part of a longer aspect of this hymn, which screams of her pain and sense of abandonment by both Nanna and Inanna.