Etana: mixed-breed king of Kish
(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)
“In the house of Dust where I came Sit the high priest and the acolyte, Sit the cantor and the shaman, Sit the attendants of the sacred ablutions, There sat Etana**,** once king of Kish, There sat Sumugan**,** he, the god of the Cattle, And also Ereshkigal**,** who is the Queen of the Underworld. Belit-Seri**,** her scribe, kneels before here. And she reads out from a tablet to her. She, the scribe, lifts her head, sees me and says: ‘Who brought this one?’…”
“Etana, the shepherd who ascended to Heaven
and made firm all the lands, ruled 1,560 years;…”