SEE EARTH CHRONICLES, ETC.
(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…)
“Kingship was lowered from Heaven” to begin at Kish.
Anu and Enlil established there a “Pavilion of Heaven”
In its foundation soil, for all days to come…”
they implanted the SHU.HA.DA.KU—an artifact made of alloy metal whose name translates literally “Supreme Strong Bright Weapon.” This divine weapon was taken to Erech (Uruk) when kingship was transferred there from Kish…In accordance to this custom, Sargon carried the object to Agade.
According to “The Lost Book of Enki”
“Now this is the account of the first City of Men, and of kingship on Earth,
And how Marduk to build a tower schemed and wherefore Inanna the ME’s stole.
In the First Region, in the lands of Edin and in the cities with precincts,
By their Anunnaki lords the Earthlings handiworks and crafts were taught.
Before long were the fields irrigated, on canal and river boats soon sailed;
The sheepfolds and granaries were overflowing, prosperity the land filled.
Ki-Engi, the Land of the Lofty Watchers, the First Region was called.
Then to let the black-headed people a city of their own possess it was decided;
Kishi, Scepter City, it was called, in Kishi did the kingship of Man begin…”
According to “The Lost Book of Enki”:
“Twenty-three kings did in Kishi reign,
for four hundred and eight years was it the Scepter City;
It was also in Kishi that a beloved king,
Etana, for a heavenly journey was taken…”
The men who were appointed by Enlil to be kings were called LU.GAL, “Mighty Man”.
(Genesis chapter 10):
“Kish begat Nimrod;
He was the first to be a Mighty Man (mixed-breed) in the land…
And the beginning of his kingship:
Babel (Babylon) and Erech (Uruk) and Akkad,
all in the land of Shin’ar (Sumer)…”