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(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

 

“My mother was a high priestess, my father I knew not. The brothers of my father loved the hills. My city is Azupiranu, which is situated on the banks of the Euphrates. My high priestess mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid. She cast me into the river which rose over me. The river bore me up and carried me to Akki, the drawer of water. Akki, the drawer of water, took me as his son and reared me. Akki, the drawer of water, appointed me as his gardener. While I was a gardener, Ishtar (Inanna) granted me her love,      and for four and […] years I exercised kingship.…”

A text known as “The Legend of Sargon” records, in Sargon’s own words, his very odd personal history:

        “Sargon, the mighty king of Agade, am I.

        My mother was a high priestess; I knew not my father…

        My mother, the high priestess, who conceived me, in secret she bore me.

        She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen sealed the lid.

        She cast me into the river; it did not sink me.

        The river bore me up, it carried me to Akki the irrigator.

        Akki the irrigator lifted me up when he drew water;

        Akki, the irrigator, as his son made me and reared me.

        Akki, the irrigator, appointed me as his gardener.

        While I was a gardener, Ishtar (Inanna) granted me her love,

        and for four and fifty years I exercised Kingship.

        The Black-headed people I ruled and governed…”

 

This Moses-like tale was written more than a thousand years prior to the time of Moses!

Inanna…found in Sargon a man to her liking…

        “One day my queen,

        After crossing heaven, crossing earth—Inanna.

        After crossing heaven, crossing earth–

        After crossing Elam and Shubur,

        After crossing…

        The hierodule approached wearily, fell asleep.

        I saw her from the edge of my garden;

        Kissed her, copulated with her…”

 

A text know as the “Sargon Chronicle” states:

        “Sharru–Kin (Sargon), king of Agade,

        rose (to power) in the era of Ishtar (Inanna).

        He had neither rival nor opponent.

        He spread his terror-inspiring glamor over all the countries.

        He crossed the sea in the east;

        he conquered the country of the west, in its full extent…”

 

       “He defeated Uruk and tore down its wall…

        He was victorious in the battle with the inhabitants of Ur…

        He defeated the entire territory from Lagash as far as the sea…”

 

          “Mari and Elam are standing in obedience before Sargon…”

 

“[Sargon] had neither rival nor equal. His splendor, over the lands it diffused. He crossed the sea in the east. In the eleventh year he conquered the western land to its farthest point. He brought it under one authority. He set up his statues there and ferried the west’s booty across on barges. He stationed his court officials at intervals of five double hours and ruled in unity the tribes of the lands. He marched to Kazallu and turned Kazallu into a ruin heap, so that there was not even a perch for a bird left…”

      

        “Sargon, the king, to whom Enlil permitted no rival—

        5,400 warriors ate bread daily before him…”

       “Enlil did not let anybody oppose Sargon, the king of the land;

        from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea Enlil gave unto him…”

 

       “Sargon, the king of Kish, triumphed in thirty-four battles (over the cities)

        up to the edge of the sea (and) destroyed their walls.

        He made the ships from Meluhha (the Indus civilization),

        the ships from Magan (and) the ships from Dilmun (Bahrein)

        tie up alongside the quay of Agade.

       Sargon the king prostrated himself before (the god) Dagan (Enki)

        (and) made supplication to him;

        (and) he (Dagon) gave him the upper land, namely Mari, Yarmuti, (and) Ebla,

        up to the Cedar Forest (and) up to the Silver Mountain…”

 

Sargon was not only “Commanding Overseer” of Ishtar, but also “anointed priest of Anu” and “great regent of Enlil.” It was Enlil, Sargon wrote, who “had given him lordship and kingship.”

When Sargon was entering the lands to the west on the mid-Euphrates and the Mediterranean coast, the domains of Adad,

        “Sargon prostrated himself in prayer before the god…

        (And) he gave him in the upper region Mari, Yarmul and Ebla,

        as far as the cedar forest and the silver mountain…”

 

Sargon’s campaign against Luhalzagesi:

        “Sargon, the king of Akkad, the bailiff of Ishtar (Inanna),

        the king of the universe, the anointed one of An (Anu),

        the king of the land, the governor of Enlil.

        He vanquished Uruk in battle…”

 

“The black-headed peoples [Sumerians] (earthlings) I ruled, I governed; mighty mountains with axes of bronze I destroyed. I ascended the upper mountains; I burst through the lower mountains. The country of the sea I besieged three times; Dilmun I captured. Unto the great Dur-ilu I went up, I … I altered … Whatsoever king shall be exalted after me, … Let him rule, let him govern the black-headed peoples; mighty mountains with axes of bronze let him destroy; let him ascend the upper mountains, let him break through the lower mountains; the country of the sea let him besiege three times; Dilmun let him capture; To great Dur-ilu let him go up…”

 

Troubles multiplied toward the end of his reign. A later Babylonian text states

“In his old age, all the lands revolted against him,

and they besieged him in Akkad (the city)…”

but

        “he went forth to battle and defeated them,

        he knocked them over and destroyed their vast army…”

 

Also shortly after,

“the Subartu (mountainous tribes of) the upper country—

in their turn attacked, but they submitted to his arms,

and Sargon settled their habitations, and he smote them grievously…”

 

“Afterward in his [Sargon’s] old age all the lands revolted against him, and they besieged him in Akkad; and Sargon went forth to battle and defeated them; he accomplished their overthrow, and their wide-spreading host he destroyed. Afterward he attacked the land of Subartu in his might, and they submitted to his arms, and Sargon settled that revolt, and defeated them; he accomplished their overthrow, and their wide-spreading host he destroyed, and he brought their possessions into Akkad. The soil from the trenches of Babylon he removed, and the boundaries of Akkad he made like those of Babylon. But because of the evil which he had committed, the great lord Marduk was angry, and he destroyed his people by famine. From the rising of the sun unto the setting of the sun they opposed him and gave him no rest…”

 

Sargon “in his old age” made a big mistake: He took away soil from Babylon and built upon the soil another Babylon beside Agade…

        “On account of the sacrilege Sargon thus committed,

        the great lord Marduk became enraged and destroyed his people by hunger.

        From the east to the west he alienated them from Sargon;

        and upon him he inflicted as punishment that he could not rest…”

He died after a reign of 54 years.

 

Inanna could simply not give up…Seating on Sargon’s throne first one of his sons and then another, enlisting in her campaigns her vassal kings in the eastern mountain lands. She fought for her disintegrating empire,

        “raining flame over the land…

        attacking like an aggressive storm.

        ‘You are known by your destruction of the rebel lands’,…”

 

intoned a daughter of Sargon

        “you are known by massacring their people…”

Turning

        “against the city that said not ‘the land is yours,…”

making

        “is rivers run with blood…”

 

“Sargon, king of Agade, came to power during the reign of Ištar (Inanna) and

he had neither rival nor equal. His splendor, over the lands

it diffused. He crossed the sea in the east.

In the eleventh year he conquered the western land to its farthest point.

He brought it under one authority. He set up his statues there

and ferried the west’s booty across on barges.

He stationed his court officials at intervals of five double hours and

ruled in unity the tribes of the lands.

He marched to Kazallu and turned Kazallu into a ruin heap,

so that there was not even a perch for a bird left.

Afterwards, in his old age, all of the lands rebelled again and

surrounded him in Agade. Sargon went out to fight and brought about their defeat.

He overthrew them and overpowered their extensive army.

Afterwards, Subartu attacked Sargon in full force and called him to arms.

Sargon set an ambush and completely defeated them.

He overpowered their extensive army

and sent their possessions into Akkad.

He dug up the dirt of the pit of Babylon and

made a counterpart of Babylon next to Agade.

Because the wrong he had done the great lord Marduk became angry and wiped out his family by famine.

From east to west, the subjects rebelled against him

and Marduk afflicted him with insomnia….”

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