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;…”