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  Sumer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first king on the list whose name is known from any other source is Etana, 13th king of the first Dynasty of Kish.
The first king authenticated through archaeological evidence is that of Enmebaragesi of Kish, the 22nd and penultimate king of that Dynasty, whose name is also mentioned in the Gilgamesh epics, and who may have been king at the time hegemony passed from Kish to Uruk once again.
He is the last ethnically Sumerian king before the arrival of the Semitic named king, Sargon of Akkad.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sumeria   (3730 words)

  
 UFO.Whipnet.org | Creation | History of Ancient Sumeria 1
When, after 3000 B. c., the growing warfare among the cities made military leadership vital, the head of the army who became king assumed an intermediate position between the god, whose agent he was, and the priestly class, whom he had both to use and to conciliate.
Thus, king and priests represented the upper class in a hierarchical society.
Sumeria became a more unified state, with a common culture and a centralized government.
ufo.whipnet.org /creation/ancient.sumeria   (3533 words)

  
 History of Sumer - Brief Overview
One king, Urukagina of Lagash, was a royal reformer, an enlightened despot who issued decrees aimed at correcting the exploitation of the poor by the rich, and of everybody by the priests.
It was the king's boast that he "gave liberty to his people" and the tablets that come down to us from this man reveal the oldest known code of laws in history.
King Ur-engur proclaimed his code of laws in the name of the great god Shamash; government had, at the very start of human civilization, recognized the political expediency of gaining heaven's blessing for its actions.
www.theology.edu /sumer.htm   (3661 words)

  
 SUMERIA
In Sumeria, however, the pictographic character of the written language was soon lost, primarily due to the difficulty of making a curved line in soft clay.
Unity was finally imposed from without, around 2340 BC, when Sargon, the king of the northern Mesopotamian territory, known as Akkad, and the first great world-conquerer, drove his forces into the south.
Eleven kings would occupy the throne of Babylon, and the sixth of these was Hammurabi.
www.worldhistory1a.homestead.com /SUMERIA.html   (2699 words)

  
 Chapter 6: That Which Has Fallen
While looking up the Merovingian kings Dagobert I and II in an encyclopedia one day, we had noticed that their entries were placed right next to that of “Dagon”, a sea god worshipped in the ancient world, and mentioned in the Bible as the patron deity of the Philistines.
Sumeria is the oldest historically documented civilization known to man. Long before Greece and Rome had attained their golden age, Sumeria was already ancient.
In Sumeria, were the pentagram originated, one of the concepts it symbolized was that of the “Shining Ones” or “Lofty Ones”, terms used in reference to the deified kings.
douglasjenkins.com /brian/chapter6.html   (9489 words)

  
 The Sumerians
Presumably before the time of the Sumerians, kings were chosen by the warriors, with the king as the leading warrior.
A bas-relief sculpture uncovered by archaeologists depicts a king of Lagash celebrating his victory over the city of Umma, the king's soldiers, with helmets, shields and pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder and line behind line over the corpses of their defeated enemy.
This was expressed in the same poetic tale that described the conflict between the king of Uruk and the distant town of Arrata - the earliest known description in writing of a paradise and the fall of humankind.
www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch01.htm   (3391 words)

  
 UFO.Whipnet.org | Creation | History of Ancient Sumeria 2
The king's palace and graveyard was located near the temple; and, as Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur proved, an increasingly lavish form of ceremonial life was organized here as the kings gained greater control over the city's surplus.
In a gigantic mass suicide, probably through the drinking of a drug, the king's courtiers and some of his soldiers had gone to their deaths with their master.
The first Sumerian ruler of historical record, Etana, king of Kish (flourished about 2800 BC), was described in a document written centuries later as the "man who stabilized all the lands." Shortly after his reign ended, a king named Meskiaggasher founded a rival dynasty at Erech (Uruk), far to the south of Kish.
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 The Gods - Kings Of Egypt
The story of priest and king in Egypt is similar to, but by no means parallel with, that of Babylonia.
The kings of Sumeria and Assyria were priests who had become kings; they were secularized priests.
No monarch of Sumeria or Babylonia or Assyria could have induced his people to do for him what the great pyramid building Pharaohs of the IVth Dynasty made their people do in those vast erections.
www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/history-outline-78.shtml   (905 words)

  
 Sumerian Mythology FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
One of the earlier kings in Kish was Etana who "stabilized all the lands" securing the First Dynasty of Kish and establishing rule over Sumer and some of its neighbors.
He is glorified as "'the father of the gods, 'the king of heaven and earth,' ' the king of all the lands'".
The god of the plain or "king of the mountain", he is the god placed in charge of the plant and animal life on the plain of Sumer by Enki.
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 Kingship
Kings of Sumeria and Assyria were of unknown fatherhood.
Bough at 341) This king became Jesus, “king” of the Jews (John 18:33).
naked body to him; he was told to kill the incumbent king and marry her.
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 Mesopotamy until 12-th century
To the 27th century, the most former known kings are Mebaragesi de Kish and Mes-kalam-doug city of Ur.
Towards -1595, a raid of Hittites' king, Mursili 1st, surprises Samsouditana and destroys the dynasty amorrite.
Towards -1220, the king Kachtiliach III is made prisoner of Assyriens which controls Babylon.
perso.wanadoo.fr /miltiade/GB/Mesopotamy.htm   (758 words)

  
 Chapter 10: The Luciferian Legacy
Her father was reputedly Godfroi de Bouillon, former King of Jerusalem (or “Defender of the Holy Sepulcher”, as he preferred to be called), and prime mover behind the formation of both the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar.
And yet the dynasty of kings who descended from this bloodline were known as sorcerer-kings, some of whom hinted or even stated outright that they were in fact descendants of Lucifer.
Chaldea’s deified kings were associated symbolically with both the Sun and the serpent, and were viewed to be “sons of the Sun”, or sons of God.
douglasjenkins.com /brian/chapter10.html   (7330 words)

  
 Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Government
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
These kings who "have received no kingdom as yet" are princes, and are most surely part of the existing European Council of Princes, who act as constitutional advisors to the European Union.
Church Age: The European Council of Princes consisting of 33 Merovingian kings was created as the occult hierarchy of Europe; Merovingians view themselves as divine because they descended from the fallen angels of Genesis 6.
watch.pair.com /new-government.html   (11434 words)

  
 Nibiruth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to legend Sumeria was the first civilization on the Earth, of unknown origin.
Nibiru was the Sumerian name for the 12th of our Solar System from which, according to its mythology, came the Gods (Annunaki), the creators (Nephilim), and Sumeria's first Kings.
According to this mythology, the "planet" Nibiru caused many cataclysms and disorders on Earth, and it will cause what is commonly called "the Apocalypse".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nibiruth   (305 words)

  
 History Ancient Coins Kings Emperors Germanic Invasion Lifestyle
Maues was an Indo-Scythian king in the early 1st century BCE.
Azilises was king of the Indo-Scythians in the mid 1st century BCE.
The obverse, seen here, shows the city of Oxford depicted beneath the king's horse; the legend on the reverse summarizes Charles l's war aims as support for the Protestant religion, the laws of England and a free Parliament.
www.nok-benin.co.uk /history_europe3.htm   (694 words)

  
 Ancient Sumer History in Mesopotamia
The Sumerian King List names eight antediluvian kings who reigned for tens of thousands of years but it is not known if these names have any historical basis.
According to the King Lists the first dynasty after the Great Flood (recorded in the Gilgamesh Epic) was the 1st Dynasty of Kish.
Sargon was King of Kish which implied suzerainty over northern Babylonia when he defeated the principal ruler in Sumer -- King Lugalzagesi of Uruk (1) thus uniting the non-Semitic Sumer with the more northerly Akkad under one kingship.....
ancientneareast.tripod.com /Sumer.html   (1998 words)

  
 TIMELINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
King Amenhotep IV (who later changed his name to Akhenaton or Ikhnaton) rules Egypt, and attempts a radical experiment in monotheism, hitherto not practiced anywhere else in the world, with the exception perhaps, of some early versions of Hinduism, and excepting the worship of primary tribal gods.
Akhenaton’s son by his fourth wife was the now famous King Tut (Tutankhamon, named after the sun god Aten that his father had declared was the only god).
Saul was installed as King, and marks the beginning of the monarchy in Israel.
www.philosophyforum.net /HistTimeline_files/HistTimeline.htm   (5410 words)

  
 Sumeria
It is to this era that the Sumerian King Lists ascribe the reigns of Dumuzi the shepherd, and the other antediluvian kings.
Etana was later believed by the Babylonians to have rode to heaven on the back of a giant Eagle so that he could receive the "plant of birth" from Ishtar (their version of Inanna) and thereby produce an heir.
Following three other kings, including another Dumuzi, the famous Gilgamesh took the throne of Erech around 2600 BCE and became in volved in a power struggle for the region with the Kish Dynasts and with Mesannepadda, the founder of the Dynasty of Ur.
www.users.bigpond.com /MSN/gary_fletcher/mesopotamia.html   (1478 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The predeuteronomic law was largely concerned with sacred matters, while the deuteronomic law's main concern is the education of the king and his people - secular matters in other words.
According to the interpretation of Hvidberg and, later Wyatt, Adam in his garden is a parable for the king in his sanctuary, specifically king Hosea, who ruled the northern kingdom until it was conquered by Sargon II in 722 BC.
In one myth, Kirta, a human king, is made grievously ill by Asherah.
mv.lycaeum.org /M2/sumeria.html   (3823 words)

  
 Social Science History: Society and Science History TimeLine
All Egyptian Kings were believed to be the MS IAH - Born of the God Yah - and the living Son of God.
King Ymntwtankh's tomb has a painting of the Holy Trinity, and on his Shrine are the glyphs for RE HEPRW NEB - LORD AND GOD OF THE HEBREWS.
Abram was the Shepherd King - with 300 officers serving under him according to Manetho and Genesis - the Pharaoh Sheshi (throne name Ma'ibra), whose father Nachos was the Nachor of Genesis.
www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/SSHTim.htm   (7381 words)

  
 Sumeria and Ebla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Nonhereditary kings governed Ebla for limited terms, and a council of elders shared in decision making.
Fourteen governors appointed by the king ruled Ebla's departments, two of them in the city proper.
The Amorites rebuilt the palace and a temple, and a statue representing one of their kings was excavated in the ruins.
ragz-international.com /ebla.htm   (780 words)

  
 Timeline Sumeria
It recorded all the kings and dynasties ruling Sumer from the earliest times.
Eridu was named as the earliest settlement and archeological evidence seems to confirm the claim.
He wrote a "Code of Laws" that contained 282 rules including the principles of "an eye for an eye" and "let the buyer beware." It was one of the first codes of law in world history, predated only by the Laws of Lipit-Ishtar.
timelines.ws /countries/SUMERIA.HTML   (475 words)

  
 Sumeria and Larsa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Naplanum was succeeded by a line of 13 kings, many of whom exercised great authority in Babylonia and represented the new hegemony of Semitic Akkadian elements that superseded the Sumerians.
Isin and Larsa seem to have existed in a state of armed neutrality for more than a century during the time when each city was consolidating its rule.
This act apparently caused little disruption in the economic life of Larsa, and this was in fact a most prosperous period, as many thousands of business documents attest.
ragz-international.com /larsa.htm   (467 words)

  
 Exagerrated Ages Sumerian/Babylonian Kings vs. Hebrew Patriarchs
According to ancient Sumerian/Babylonian "king lists," their kings could live for tens of thousands of years, but of course the worthiest of the kings lists were not merely men, but gods or demigods ("kings from heaven"), whose ages could consequently be recorded astronomically.
Interestingly, both the "king lists" and the Hebrew list of the patriarchs are composed of ten kings/patriarchs.
All in all, the ages of the partriarchs like the ages of the Sumerian/Babylonian kings, appear mythically larger than life, growing less so the nearer each king (or patriarch) came to the author's actual day.
www.edwardtbabinski.us /skepticism/age_patriarchs.html   (1009 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asia
While the Sassanian kings held their power and authority over the whole region east of the Euphrates, the Romans had absolute power over Syria, parts of northern Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor.
Arabia, on the other hand, had successfully resisted permanent foreign encroachments, and the numerous tribes of that peninsula continued to be governed by their own sheikhs, princes, and kings.
The earliest known Hebrew migrations from Palestine occurred during the reign of Sargon, King of Assyria (722-705 B. C.), who having in 722 captured Sumeria, the capital of the northern Israelitish kingdom, transported 27,000 Samaritan Hebrews to Syria and the frontiers of Media.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01777b.htm   (4210 words)

  
 The Tower of Babel and Babylon, Gilgamesh, Ningizzida, Gudea
In 1872, George Smith an assistant at the British Museum discovered on one of the tablets (Tablet XI) a story about a flood, written down in the seventh century B.C.E., that was strikingly similar to the Biblical story of Noah in Genesis 6-9.
In the twentieth century Sir Leonard Wooley discovered at the mount of al’Ubaid near Ur and ancient temple dedicated by A-anni-pad-da, (king of Ur, son of Mes-anni-pad-da, who was the founder of the third dynasty after the Flood in the Sumerian lists of sovereigns) to the goddess Nin-Kharsag.
The first of the divine kings was Dungi, the son of the goddess Ninsun.
www.mazzaroth.com /ChapterThree/TowerOfBabel.htm   (2172 words)

  
 Reptilian DNA - single post for printer
It isn't logical to assume caucasians just suddenly packed their bags and moved to Europe and colder climes - as their fair skin, eyes and biology were specifically geared for the colder climes with less sunlight.
Even the smallest child with a bit of scientific knowledge could lay waste to such a theory, which I don't mind telling you, is how we end up having problems witnessing to people about the Lord.
As I've illustrated elsewhere in this thread, the sumerians were the people of the bible - the antediluvian kings of Sumeria, these are the people of Genesis.
www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/single.php?post=622303   (420 words)

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