What are these Sumerian words–pukku and mikki and gidim?
When Balili the priest tells Dara and the children about Inanna and the huluppu-tree, he says that Inanna made a pukku and a mikki for Gilgamesh who had saved her. Opinions range widely on what those objects were. Some conjectures: a drum and drumstick, a hockey stick and puck, or a ball and stick. Again, when Dara uses a word she doesn’t know—gidim—she likes the effect it has on Shala, her naughty little charge. What she doesn’t know is that the gidim were the Sumerians’ unburied and wandering dead.
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