The "real" timetable of Ancient history
Updated and partly revised by the author
As mentioned in earlier chapters the Sumerians compiled a list that purported
to show all the kings who ruled Sumer from Creation to the final Semitic conquest
on about 2000 BCE. The Sumerian Kings List covers both "mythical" and
historical times.
In chapter 11 we could read the history and the timeline of the Sumerian
period through the eyes of Scholars. In this chapter I will give my
interpretation of the history of Mesopotamia with a lot of references to
stories found on tablets in that area complete with the time I reconstructed
in accordance to the already mentioned tablets and one tablet in particular,
The Sumerian King list.
Some early texts are the
Sumerian King Lists, known in ancient times by the
first line or the first few opening words: (Sumerian), nam.lugal, meaning
’kingship’ with, lugal, ’king’, the sign, nam, introduces an abstract noun
in Sumerian (and later in Akkadian compound logograms).
Probably are the oldest lists composed in the 22nd century BCE but that is
far from proven, many centuries after the times they refer to, but the date
is far from proven because there are many of them even composed in earlier and
in latter centuries during the Babylonian ages. The lists are copied by
generations of scribes and standardized in this process until in the Old
Babylonian time a canonical version exists extended with kings up to that
time period.
The Lists are first studied by
Jacobsen and published in 1939. It is still
a basic tool in studying the earliest history of Mesopotamia. Scholars believes
that the lists sometimes contradicts other epic stories because certain kings
should be contemporaneous, even when it don’t show to do so in the King Lists,
in my opinion is the reason simple, Scholars don’t accept the long lifetime
of these kings. We will see later in this chapter that the Epics don’t
conflict when you are willing to accept the lifetime of the early kings.
A description in the Archaeology Odyssey, the sceptics of Scholars in
accordance to the Sumerian King lists
Taken from
Archaeology
Odyssey, May/June 2000.
In the early 1900s, the colorful, cranky German-American scholar
Hermann Hilprecht examined a 4,000 year old cuneiform tablet that had been excavated
at the site of ancient Nippur. What he held was the first fragment of the
Sumerian King List an ancient Mesopotamian document claiming to identify
every king in Sumerian history.
Since
Hilprecht’s discovery, at least 18 other exemplars of the king list
have been found, most of them dating from the second half of the Isin dynasty
(c. 2017-1794 BCE.). No two of these documents, however, are identical. One
of them, a so-called non-standard version, traces the origins of Sumerian kingship
all the way back to the beginnings of human history and includes an account
of a great flood (not unlike the biblical deluge). Other exemplars trace shorter
periods of time or contain mere fragments of the king list. Still, there is
enough common material in all 15 versions of the list to make it clear that
they are derived from a single, "ideal" account of Sumerian history.
The 8-inch-high Weld-Blundell prism probably discovered during the 1921 excavation
of Larsa, in southern Mesopotamia is the most complete extant copy of the list.
It begins: "When kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu [the
oldest of the Sumerian cities]." Then come the names and regnal years of
each of the kings who ruled from that city.
Most versions of the king list follow a similar narrative pattern in recording
kings of the Sumerian city-states, some of which existed simultaneously. They
state the name of an important Sumerian capital, supply a list of its rulers
and then describe each royal dynasty’s downfall: "[City A] was smitten with
weapons; its kingship was carried to [city B]."
Taken from
Archaeology
Odyssey, July/August 2000.
Unfortunately, for all their name-dropping, none of the extant lists provides
completely reliable information about ancient Sumer. The reigns of many of the
rulers cited are clearly fictitious. One very dedicated king, for example, is
said to have ruled for over 43,000 years! In addition, only a few rulers of
each dynasty are discussed in any detail, and only some of the rulers mentioned
in the list can be found in other ancient sources. (One notable exception is
the legendary warrior-king Gilgamesh, who appears in several versions of the
list, as well as in numerous Sumerian stories.) Nevertheless, the king list
does introduce some interesting and colorful characters, such as a female
barkeep who was "king" of Kish for 100 years.
Most scholars believe that the king list was really a work of political propaganda,
designed to help the rulers of the Isin dynasty in their bid to take over southern
Mesopotamia. By weaving all of the disparate, often competing dynasties of ancient
Sumer into a single seamless narrative, the authors of the list were trying
to suggest that the rulers of Isin were part of a long and illustrious royal
heritage one that could trace its lineage all the way back to the time when
"kingship descended from heaven." Not a bad qualification for
leadership, by anyone’s reckoning.
The commentator forgot to tell that there are much more tablets with Kings
mentioned in the Sumerian King lists, for instance Enmerkar, Aga, En-men-barage-si
and many, many other kings. The description of these kings you can read
later in this chapter towards the dynasty they belonged to, including a
reference to the tablets with their story.
The Sumerian King list
In accordance to the Sumerian story there were 7 previous ages (time about
270,000 years) before the Great Flood.
The early Sumerian king list names eight kings with a total of 241,200 years
from the time when "the kingship was lowered from heaven" to the time when "the
Flood" swept over the land and once more "the kingship was lowered from heaven"
after the Flood. (Thorkild Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List, 1939, pp. 71,
77).
In the lists Kingship is seen as a divine institution: it descended from
heaven. The opening line of the text is:
When kingship was lowered from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug.’ Because
of this, kingship is seen as an institution that is shared by different cities.
Each city takes its turn during a certain period.
The Sumerian sign for ’government’ or ’year(s) of government’ is the same
sign for ’turn’, , bala, taken as loan word by the Akkadians as palű.
It is
written with the sign BAL which in later New Assyrian orthography is
. In Akkadian it
is used as a logogram. The sign developed from a pictogram of the shuttle of
a loom (the rotating part, to weave tissue, together with the determinative
for ’wood’ it still means ’shuttle of a loom’) and was used for words
meaning ’to rotate’, ’turn’ and thus also ’government’.
. In Akkadian it
is used as a logogram. The sign developed from a pictogram of the shuttle of
a loom (the rotating part, to weave tissue, together with the determinative
for ’wood’ it still means ’shuttle of a loom’) and was used for words
meaning ’to rotate’, ’turn’ and thus also ’government’.
About eight (in other versions ten) antediluvian kings are mentioned together
with their periods of government. The first kings reigned in pre-historic times
and lived for unbelievably long periods of time before the Flood. Added together
they "would have" ruled for 241,200 years.....
Scholars are aware that there is even a problem with the time the Kings lived
and also which Kings eventually ruled together in different cities. We will
see that they are wrong because only a few dynasties existed together but
most of them followed after each other as the king list clearly describes.
As mentioned, scholars are unwilling to except the long lifetime
of the first kings in this list and they say that the lifetime is purely fictitious
but on the other hand most of them accept the long lifetime of the Earth-fathers
in the Bible as true. I can’t imagine that over a period of thousands of years
in which several versions of the King list were written down all authors were
propagandists. Do you belief that, I don’t.
Scholars composed their timeline because they read the King list with "Human
eyes". Nevertheless most Scholars still believes in the long lifetime of the
Earth-fathers in the Bible (Adam - Noah of about 900 years each). They
accepts that as a fact but why not accept the timeline of the Sumerian King
list as a fact ?.
Another argument is, that Assyriology is a young
science and its impossible that scholars can make a final conclusion that
the time spans, mentioned in the King list, are based on fiction.
During my study of
the King list I encountered a problem regarding the time
in which the kings ruled so I decided first to see if there are stories who
could be linked to some kings and indeed I found some of them. Another problem
was the timeline of the history written down in the lists. I concluded that
the reconstruction was only possible when I made a calculation back in time.
The time in which
Ur-Nammu, the founder of the third dynasty of Ur, lived
(2112 - 2094 BCE) is known and accepted by most Scholars. With this date in
mind I could make a calculation back in time until the first kings of the King
list. So I used the chronology of the Sumerian King back in time from King Ur-Nammu,
the founder of the Ur III dynasty. Finally I accepted the times mentioned in
the King list as the truth, including the years of reign of the early kings.
With that in mind I make a calculation back in time until the date of the
Great Flood and the date when the Kingship was lowered from Heaven for the
first time.
We will see also that the timeline of Scholars is based on the theory that
most Dynasties in the Sumerian period existed at the same time but in my
opinion that is most uncertain because the King list is very clear in it’s
explanation of, at least, the follow up of most Dynasties, nevertheless
there is indeed prove that some of them existed at the same time.
I am aware that
some Dynasties indeed existed together, we can read that
in some stories on tablets found in Mesopotamia but that thus not conclude
all
Dynasties existed in a few hundred years, in
the timetable of scholars. That’s, in my opinion, the problem why the
timetable handed by Scholars is wrong.
For complete translation on the Sumerian King List document: HERE
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The real timeline of Mesopotamia
We can’t still imagine that man could live as long as written in the
Sumerian
King list but were they really man ? No, they were not. The period in which modern men was created by the Gods can’t
fit in the period of the first eight Kings of the list. The conclusion therefore
can be made that these Kings were at least Gods or Demi-Gods and they came
from Heaven as clearly is written, further they ruled on Earth for a long
time before the Flood.
The first dynasties of Kic and Unug
after the Flood, when the Kingship was
lowered for the second time from Heaven, were also Gods and Demi-Gods and they
ruled on Earth until historical times. Most of them for thousands of years and
the "direct" offspring of these Gods for hundreds of years. Prove
of that we can find in several stories of the Kings from Kic and Unug.
The
Sumerian tablets and the Bible as well are very clear about that but
scholars don’t believe in these stories as mentioned before, so they shrunk
the rule-time of these ancient Kings to a period of 150 years for ALL dynasties.
If you belief what is written in the Bible and read the chapters before you
can conclude that the Earth-fathers from the Bible and the Gods of
Mesopotamia lived for a long time and that a long lifetime was common at
that time.
With that in mind I made a timetable with the Kings mentioned in the
Sumerian
King list. As mentioned I made this calculation back in time from the time
of King Ur-Nammu, the founder of the third dynasty of Ur, because most
scholars are more or less sure that he ruled from 2,112 - 2,094 BCE.
The reader can soon make the conclusion himself that the time in which the
Flood took place must be placed much earlier in history then scholars learn
us today.
To make this conclusion together we will read the whole translation of the
Sumerian King list, the original and oldest text, dated from about
2,000 BCE. The, so called, Isin version dated from about 1,800 BCE.
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Kings before the Flood
Rule of the Gods (Anunnaki)
Kings in Heaven
About 433,578 - 271,578 BCE.
Alorus became king; he ruled for 162,000 years.
| Name | Length | Time |
| Alorus |
162,000 years
|
433517 - 271517 BCE
|
| Total 1 king; 162,000 years |
It’s uncertain who the counterpart is of
Alorus, some scholars presume that
he is the same as Adam in the Bible. In my opinion he was a God, maybe another
name for An or Anu.
The First Dynasty on Earth
The following ancient kings ruled successively from the five original
pre-flood
cities: Eridug, Bad-Tibira, Larag, Zimbir and Curuppag.
Eridug (Eridu)
About 271,578 - 206,778 BCE.
Eridug, the first city mentioned, is the city of the water god Enki/Ea
(one
of the triad of Gods in the Sumerian pantheon, see chapter 9). It was
probably
situated in the extreme south of Mesopotamia near the sea or a lagoon.
Probably Eri-dugga, "good city", at the mounds of Abu-Sharain but the
exact location
has never been found. According to some Sumerian traditions, Eridug was
the
first city built by man. It was the home of Adapa, the so-called Babylonian
Adam.
After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug.In Eridug Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years.Alaljar ruled for 36000 years.2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years.They were called Kings from Heaven and they reigned for 64,800 years.Then Eridug fell and the kingship was taken to Bad-tibira.The two kings ruled a total of 64,800 years and then kingship was removed to Bad-tibira.
Bad-tibira
About 206778 - 98778 BCE
A city probably located on the Sumerian Plain roughly between Ur and Lagash. Dumuzid
was it’s tutelary deity.
The exact location of the city has never been found.
In Bad-tibira, En-men-lu-ana ruled for 43200 years.En-men-gal-ana ruled for 28800 years.Dumuzid, the shepherd, ruled for 36000 years.3 kings; they ruled for 108000 years.Then Bad-tibira fell and the kingship was taken to Larag.The three kings ruled a total of 108,000 years and then kingship was removed to Larak.
Larag (Larak)
About 98778 - 68978 BCE.
The location of
Larag has not been positively identified, but is believed
to have been on the Tigris, east of Kic (Kish). The city was dedicated to Pabilsag,
the god of trees. Even as Eridug and Bad-tibira
the exact location of the city has never been found.
In Larag, En-sipad-zid-ana ruled for 28800 years.1 king; ruled for 28800 years.Then Larag fell and the kingship was taken to Zimbir.In Larak, Ensipazianna ruled 28,800 years before kingship was removed to Sippar.
Zimbir (Sippar)
About 69978 - 48978 BCE.
Sippar’s tutelary deity was Utu (Semitic Shamash), the sun-god and the god
of justice.
It is said that the secrets of divination were shown to a king of Sippar,
also by divine revelation. Gods make their will, intentions and answers known
to the people by supernatural means: numerous omens and signs that needed explanation.
The exegesis of omens was seen as a discipline ('science’) to inquire the gods.
It was an official institution, used by the king to collect information. No
decision of any importance was taken without proper consulting. The sun god
Utu is in particular connected with the discipline of divination. He is in a
position to oversee everything, so also the future.
It was probably the most northern of the Sumerian cities But also as all
cities before. The exact location has never been found.
In Zimbir, En-men-dur-ana became king; he ruled for 21000 years.1 king; ruled for 21000 years.Then Zimbir fell and the kingship was taken to Curuppag.In Sippar, Enmeduranna ruled 21,000 years and then Sippar was abandoned and its kingship removed to Shuruppak.
Curuppag (Shuruppak, Uruppak)
About 48978 - 30378 BCE
Curuppag is probably a city on the banks of the Euphrates, near
modern Fara. The exact location has never been found either. The last
king of Curuppag
was the hero in the Flood story Ziusudra, the Sumerian Noah. He was a prince
or noble of the town, possibly the son of Ubara-tutu. It is also possible
that he did rule as king. Shuruppak was dedicated to Ansud, the goddess of grain.
She was also known as Sud and as Enlil’s consort Ninlil.
In Curuppag, Ubara-Tutu became king; he ruled for 18600 years.In Shuruppak, Ubartutu ruled 18,600 years and then The Flood came.1 king; ruled for 18600 years.In 5 cities 8 kings; they ruled for 241200 years.Eight kings in five cities ruled 241,200 years before The Flood swept over the land.Then the flood swept over.
The attended reader have already mentioned that ALL cities from before the
Flood are still not found and never will be found because they are destroyed
due to catastrophic occurrences shortly before and during the Flood.
Antediluvian period
|
Nr.
|
King Name
|
City of Rule
|
Length of Rule
|
Sar / Ner *
|
Begin / end of rule before the Flood
|
|
|
Alorus
|
Heaven
|
162,000
|
45
|
-432000
|
|
|
Total
|
|
162000
|
45
|
-270000
|
|
1
|
Alulim
|
Eridug
|
28,800
|
8
|
-270000
|
|
2
|
Alaljar
|
Eridug
|
36,000
|
10
|
-241200
|
|
|
Eridug
|
|
64,800
|
18
|
-205200
|
|
3
|
En-men-lu-ana
|
Bad-Tibira
|
43,200
|
12
|
-205200
|
|
4
|
En-men-gal-ana
|
Bad-Tibira
|
28,800
|
8
|
-162000
|
|
5
|
Dumuzid
|
Bad-Tibira
|
36,000
|
10
|
-133200
|
|
|
Bad-Tibira
|
|
108,000
|
30
|
-97200
|
|
6
|
En-sipad-zid-ana
|
Larag
|
28,800
|
8
|
-97200
|
|
|
Larag
|
|
28,800
|
8
|
-68400
|
|
7
|
En-men-dur-ana
|
Zimbir
|
21,000
|
5 (5 Ner)
|
-68400
|
|
|
Zimbir
|
|
21,000
|
5 (5 Ner)
|
-47400
|
|
8
|
Ubara-Tutu
|
Curuppag
|
18,600
|
5 (1 Ner)
|
-47400
|
|
|
Curuppag
|
18,600
|
5 (1 Ner)
|
--28800
|
|
|
|
Total 5 Cities
|
241,200
|
67
|
-28800
|
|
|
9
|
Uta-Napishtim ?
|
28,800
|
8
|
-28800
|
|
|
|
Total
|
270,000
|
75
|
0
|
|
|
G. Total
|
432,000
|
120
|
0
|
* 1 Sar = 3,600 years, 1 Ner = 600 years.
These Kings represented the five cities before the Great Flood.
- Eridug or Eridu
- Bad-tibira
- Larag or Larak
- Zimbir or Sippar
- Curuppag or Shuruppak
While in Eridu Kings from Heaven reigned for 64,800 years before the Flood.Together they ruled for 432,000 years before the Flood (120 Sar)
Table of the first kingship on Earth
|
Sumerian Name
|
City
|
Length
|
Time
|
|
Alulim
|
Eridu
|
28,800 years
|
271578 - 242778 BCE
|
|
Alaljar
|
Eridu
|
36,000 years
|
242778 - 206778 BCE
|
|
En-men-lu-ana
|
Bad-Tibira
|
43,200 years
|
206778 - 163578 BCE
|
|
En-men-gal-ana
|
Bad-Tibira
|
28,800 years
|
163578 - 134778 BCE
|
|
Dumuzid
|
Bad-Tibira
|
36,000 years
|
134778 - 98778 BCE
|
|
En-sipad-zid-ana
|
Larag
|
28,800 years
|
98778 - 69978 BCE
|
|
En-men-dur-ana
|
Zimbir
|
21,000 years
|
69978 - 48978 BCE
|
|
Ubara-Tutu
|
Curuppag
|
18,600 years
|
48978 - 30378 BCE
|
|
Total 8 kings
|
5 cities
|
241,200 years
|
The Flood took place about 30,378 BCE.
Most scholars don’t think there is any similarity with the Bible because
the Earth-fathers before the flood counted 10 rulers from Adam to Noah. What
they overlooked is the fact that not All of them could have ruled because they
succeeded their father after his dead. So one earth-father can be crossed out
as ruler namely Lamech, the father of Noah because he died 5 years BEFORE Methuselah.
With that in mind we have only to place 9 earth-fathers in the list of successors.
Further it’s uncertain that Enoch ruled himself because he disappeared during
the rule time of Seth. So finally we have only to count 8 rules before the flood.
You see that also the Bible counts at last also 8 rules and not 10 as most scholars
think.
When we look at the above table we can try if there is a similarity with the
Earth-fathers in the Bible.
Sumerian king list in acc.
to the Bible
|
King list
|
King list
|
Bible
|
Bible
|
|
Alulim
|
28,800 years
|
Seth
|
112 years
|
|
Alaljar
|
36,000 years
|
Enos
|
98 years
|
|
En-men-lu-ana
|
43,200 years
|
Cainan
|
95 years
|
|
En-men-gal-ana
|
28,800 years
|
Mahalaleel
|
55 years
|
|
Dumuzid
|
36,000 years
|
Yared
|
132 years
|
|
En-sipad-zid-ana
|
28,800 years
|
Enoch
|
0 years
|
|
En-men-dur-ana
|
21,000 years
|
Methuselah
|
234 years
|
|
Ubara-Tutu
|
18,600 years
|
Lamech
|
0 years
|
|
Total
|
241,200 years
|
726 years
|
As you can see there is no logical similarity between the
king list and the
Bible but that thus not prove that some or all of the pre-diluvium kings can
be identified with the Earth-fathers. The timeline used in the Bible is
often discussed as pure fiction too.
My conclusion is that the first 8 kings in the Sumerian king list can’t be
identified with the Earth-fathers from Adam to Noah.
Map of the Sumerian Cities and possible locations of the Antediluvian cities
After the flood the Gods came back to Earth and build a "new" home for themselves
called:
Nippur
It is possible that the place where
Nippur was build was the location of
the Antediluvian city of Zimbir. Nippur was the religious capital of Sumer and holy for the Sumerians, being
the home of the supreme god Enlil on Earth. Some of the believers in an
archaic democracy think that Nippur was a sort of "federal capital" with
delegates from every city going there to elect a king in times of war. The
house of An was called "Duranki", the "temple" of Enlil was called "E-kur". In later chapter about
Nibiru I will explain more details about the so named "E-kur"
As long as the Gods were on Earth, Nippur was a forbidden zone for Humans.
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Kings after the Flood
The
Lesser Gods (Igigi) period
After the flood had swept over, and the kingship had descended from heaven, the kingship was in Kic.
After The Flood, kingship was handed down from
Heaven a second time, this time to the city of Kish which became the seat of
kingship
The First Dynasty of Kic
About 30378 - 5868 BCE.
Kic or Kish is most likely the same as Nibru, the city mentioned in a lot of
Sumerian tablets it is also possible that Nibru and Nippur are the same city
but that is not proven yet.
Kish was the first city to gain control "after the deluge" gaining overlord
ship over all of Sumer. Sumer was unified in name, with all the city-states
recognizing Kish as their overlord, in words if not in deeds. In fact, each
city was independent and usually merely paid Kish lip service and the occasional
tribute. Later kings used the title "King of Kish" to legitimize their rule.
King of Kish came to mean imperial control or overlord ship. The King of Kish
seems to have been given the control of Nippur by default. This looks not so
strange as we will see later.
The tutelary deity of Kish was Zababa, the warrior god, another name for
Ninurta (Ningirsu) (Ninurta was the God
Yahweh in the Bible and the God who
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah in later times).
All the kings of the period from the flood to historical age ruled in Kish.
About half of them have Semitic names, meaning that Semites were established
in Sumer, or at least the northern part, even at this ancient date and that
not all interaction between the two groups was hostile. There is reason to
believe that the kings were historical.
In Kic, Jucur Gaur became king; he ruled for 1200 years.Kullassina-bel Gulla-Nidaba-annapad ruled for 960 years.Nanjiclicma Palakinatim ruled for 6700 900 years.En-tarah-ana ruled for Nangishkushma 420 670 years ..., 3 months, and 3 1/2 days.Babum Bahina ruled for 300 years.Puannum Buanum ruled for 840 years.Kalibum Kalibum ruled for 960 years.Kalumum Galumum ruled for 840 years.Zuqaqip Zukakip ruled for 900 years.Atab ruled for 600 years.Macda Mashda, the son of Atab, ruled for 840 years.Arwium Arurim, the son of Macda, ruled for 720 years.Etana, the shepherd, who ascended to heaven and consolidated all the foreign countries, became king; he ruled for 1500 1560 years.Balih, the son of Etana, ruled for 400 years.En-me-nuna Enmenunna ruled for 660 years.Melem-Kic Melam-Kish, the son of En-me-nuna, ruled for 900 years.1560 are the years of the dynasty of En-me-nunaBarsal-nuna Barsalnunna, the son of En-me-nuna, ruled for 1200 years.Zamug Meszamug, the son of Barsal-nuna, ruled for 140 years.Tizqar Tizkar, the son of Zamug, ruled for 305 years.Ilcu Ilku, ruled for 900 years.ltasadum ruled for 1200 years.The last two God kings of Kic ruled in the same time as the First Dynasty of Unug (Uruk), the half Gods. They were :En-men-barage-si Enmebaraggesi, who made the land of Elam submit, became king; he ruled for 900 years.Aga Agga, the son of En-men-barage-si, ruled for 625 years.En-men-barage-si was captured by Dumuzid the fisherman, the king of Kuara *
* We can make a calculation of the dates of all kings above because we know
when Gilgamesh ( 6105-5979 BCE) lived (see the story later).
When we read The history of Tummal we have proof that En-men-barage-si,
the king, built the Iri-nanam in Enlil’s temple.
Aga, son of En-me-barage-si, made the Tummal flourish and brought Ninlil (the spouse of Enlil) into the Tummal. Then the Tummal fell into ruins for the first time (War between the Gods and Half-Gods).
When we read the story of
Gilgamesh and Aga
we have proof that Aga and Gilgamesh lived at the same time because Aga came
from Kic to Gilgamesh at Unug to ask him to finish digging wells together. Gilgamesh
first refuse and made war with Aga. Gilgamesh is victorious but set Aga free
to go back to Kic.
23 kings they ruled for 24510 years, 3 months, and 3 1/2 days.Then Kic was defeated and the kingship was taken to E-ana.All told, twenty-three kings ruled a total of 24,510 years, 3 months and 3½ days before Kish was defeated in battle and its kingship carried off to Eanna.
The attended reader have already noticed that both king list differs in the
rule time of some kings but both lists have the same total time span of the
Dynasty.
All above Kings were Gods and Children of Gods
Because of the fights between the
Gods and the Half-Gods on Earth at that
period the Gods decided to retrieve in the background and called the Gods on
Earth back to E-ana, the home base of the Gods. (E-ana was by the Sumerians
called "the house of the Gods", lowered down from heaven, a "cloudbank"
resting on the earth).
This so named "cloudbank" was in my theory a
space shuttle, a spaceship with
as home base the mother ship or planet "Nibiru"
The
Gods had afterwards a long time a control function on the Earthly half-Gods
and their children. This is the period in which religion by Humans was born.
Table of the first kingship of Kic
|
Name
|
Length
|
Time
|
|
Jucur
|
1,200
|
30378 - 29178 BCE
|
|
Kullassina-bel
|
960
|
29178 - 28218 BCE
|
|
Nanjiclicma
|
6,700
|
28218 - 21518 BCE
|
|
En-tarah-ana
|
420
|
21518 - 21098 BCE
|
|
Babum
|
300
|
21098 - 20798 BCE
|
|
Puannum
|
840
|
20798 - 19958 BCE
|
|
Kalibum
|
960
|
19958 - 18998 BCE
|
|
Kalumum
|
840
|
18998 - 18158 BCE
|
|
Zuqaqip/b
|
900
|
18158 - 17258 BCE
|
|
Atab
|
600
|
17258 - 16658 BCE
|
|
Macda
|
840
|
16658 - 15818 BCE
|
|
Arwium
|
720
|
15818 - 15098 BCE
|
|
Etana (the shepherd)
|
1,500
|
15098 - 13598 BCE
|
|
Baliih
|
400
|
13598 - 13198 BCE
|
|
En-me-nuna
|
660
|
13198 - 12538 BCE
|
|
Melem-Kic
|
900
|
12538 - 11638 BCE
|
|
Barsal-nuna
|
1,200
|
11638 - 10438 BCE
|
|
Zamug
|
640
|
10438 - 9798 BCE
|
|
Tizqar
|
305
|
9798 - 9493 BCE
|
|
Ilku
|
900
|
9493 - 8593 BCE
|
|
Iltasadum
|
1,200
|
8593 - 7393 BCE
|
|
En-men-barage-si
|
900
|
7393 - 6493 BCE
|
|
Aga
|
625
|
6493 - 5868 BCE
|
|
Total: 23 kings; 24,510 years
|
The period of the Half-Gods
in the Bible mentioned the Children of God
The First Dynasty of Unug (Uruk)
About 6850 - 4561 BCE
In my opinion was Unug build by mission of the Gods to separate the
Godly
city of Kic from their offspring with Humans and the Sons of Gods.
The Gods of Kic and their offspring dwelled there until they finally were
defeated by Sargon I in 2,461 BCE.
Scholars believe that
Unug originally was named E-ana.
This misunderstanding was in my opinion clear because the temple in Unug,
dedicated to An, had the same name.
The first king of Unug (Mec-ki-aj-gacer) was the builder of the city. Enmerkar,
his son, build a wall around the city of Unug in the time there were several
Wars between the Gods and the Sons of Gods. Maybe that’s the reason why
Uruk
had two patron deities, the heaven god An and the fertility goddess
Inanna
(Ishtar).
The attended reader could have seen already that the first dynasty of Unug
starts from the house of the Gods "E-ana".
Is it possible that Mec-ki-aj-gacer was chosen by the Gods to build a city
on Earth again (after the War of the Gods) to separate the Gods in Kic from
the Half-Gods and the Children of God and Men ?.
Could it be possible that he is the same as the Biblical
Enoch?.
If this is the truth then Utu, the Sun God, must be the same as the father
of Enoch, namely Yared and Enmerkar must be the same as Methuselah.
In that case the writers of The Bible mixed up the names of the Earth-fathers
because Noah lived long before Mec-ki-aj-gacer, the Enoch of the Bible.
It is far from proven but it is still a possibility.
Enmerkar, the son of Mec-ki-aj-gacer, the king of Unug, who built Unug, became king; he ruled for 420 years.
Aratta was a city, city-state, or country with which Sumerians had close
trade and religious ties. Its location is not known (probably Armenia, Iran
or India but in my opinion most likely Harappa in India.
Lugalbanda, the shepherd, ruled for 1200 years.
In my opinion was Lugalbanda not a King of the first dynasty of Unug because
the Kinglist describes clearly that he was Lord of Kulaba.
Dumuzid, the fisherman, whose city was Kuara, ruled for 100 years,He captured En-men-barage-si single-handed.
Even as Lugalbanda was Dumuzid not a King of the first dynasty of Unug but
King of Kuara (probably a city nearby or in Iran or India, In my opinion the
city was Mohenjo-daro, the twin city of Harappa, in the Indus valley.
Dumuzid captured En-men-barage-si, the 22nd Godly King of the first Dynasty
of Kic (Kish), so he was strong enough to capture a God, that’s prove that he
was at least a half-God himself. Because of that we know the date when
En-men-barage-si lived, namely on about 6200 BCE.
Another proof of the time in which they lived,
Gilgamesh made war with Aga,
the son of En-men-barage-si, so they must have lived at the same time.
Further is here another prove that at that time there was struggle (War)
between the Gods and the Sons of God.
Gilgamesh became king of Unug about 6105 BCE.
Gilgamec, whose father was a phantom, the lord of Kulaba, ruled for 126 years.
In the poems of Gilgamesh is spoken that he was
2/3 God and 1/3 Human, he was the son of the Goddess Ninsun and Lugalbanda
(a son of the Gods himself).
In accordance to the timeline of Scholars
Gilgamesh lived about 2700 BCE,
a hole of about 3,400 years with the timeline of the Sumerian King list. For
some Scholars the time stood still for about 3,400 years because they place
the rule of these four Kings on about 2650 BCE. A strange phenomenon is also
that, in the timetable of most Scholars, Gilgamec (about 2650 BCE) should be
nearly a time mate of Sargon I (2450 BCE, the founder of the dynasty of Agade (Akkad)), can you belief that, I don’t and there is enough proof that
it wasn’t.
Ur-Nungal, the son of Gilgamec, ruled for 30 years.Udul-kalama, the son of Ur-Nungal ruled for 15 years.La-ba-cum Labasher ruled for 9 years.En-nun-tarah-ana Ennundaranna ruled for 8 years.Mec-he Meshede, the smith, ruled for 36 years.Melem-ana ruled for 6 years.Lugal-kitun (?) Lugalkidul ruled for 36 years.12 kings; they ruled for 2310 years.Then Unug was defeated and the kingship was taken to Urim.All told, twelve kings ruled a total of 2,310 years in Uruk before Uruk was defeated in battle and its kingship carried off to Ur.
Table of the first dynasty of Unug
| Name | Length | Time |
| Mec-ki-aj-gacir, who build Unug | 325 | 6850 - 6525 BCE |
| Enmerkar | 420 | 6525 - 6105 BCE |
| Lugalbanda (the shepherd), Lord of Kulaba * | 1,200 | about 6500 BCE |
| Dumuzid (the fisherman), King of Kuara * | 100 | about 6200 BCE |
| Gilgamec lord of Unug | 126 | 6105 - 5979 BCE |
| Ur-lungal | 30 | 5979 - 5949 BCE |
| Udul-kalama | 15 | 5949 - 5934 BCE |
| La-ba’cum | 9 | 5934 - 5925 BCE |
| En-nun-tarah-ana | 8 | 5925 - 5917 BCE |
| Mec-he (the smith) | 36 | 5917 - 5881 BCE |
| Melem-anna | 900 | 5881 - 4981 BCE |
| Lugal-kitun | 420 | 4981 - 4561 BCE |
| Total: 12 kings; 2,310 years |
* see the notes by the explanation of the kings above.
Even when Lugalbanda and Dumuzid belonged to the dynasty of that will not
have any impact on the timeline and the arguments as mentioned above because
the dynasty of Kic (the Godly dynasty) existed together with most other
dynasties in Sumer.
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