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;…”