"Engar-dug, blocked at the anus"
I wish the writer had given some idea as to why Engar-dug earned his enmity.
Other pearls of wisdom:
"a young woman did not fart in her husband's embrace"
Was the reverse equally untrue in their culture?
Pythagoras also said that no one was to ever eat a bean under any circumstance! His reasons for making such a drastic statement are based on the theory from a Roman peer of his named Diogenes Laertius. Around the first century, B.C. it was felt that beans are " the materials which contain the largest portion of that animated matter which our souls are made of." Let me explain. The Greek word for soul was "anemos" which also meant wind. The animated matter which Diogenes is referring to is the intestinal digestion that goes on inside us with the beans. Are you starting to catch on? In other words, they believed that the buried dead released their souls in the form of gases or winds, that got absorbed into the fava beans. When you ate these beans, (the intestinal process) these spiritual soul winds got released and then ascended into Heaven. - http://www.brownielocks.com/beans.html
The rest of the images are in:
Sjöberg, Åke W. 1972. “He Is a Good Seed of a Dog” and “Engardu, the Fool.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 24(4). 107–119. doi:10.2307/1359629.