En-men-dur-ana

En-men-dur-ana

En-men-dur-ana (also Emmeduranki) of Sippar was an ancient Sumerian king, whose name appears in the Sumerian king list as the seventh and penultimate pre-dynastic king of Sumer (before ca. 2900 BC).

His name means "chief of the powers of Dur-an-ki", which in turn means "the meeting-place of heaven and earth" (literally "bond of above and below").

En-men-dur-ana's city Sippar was associated with the worship of the sun-god Utu, later called Shamash in the Semitic language.

A myth written in a Semitic language tells of Emmeduranki, subsequently being taken to heaven by the gods Shamash and Adad, and taught the secrets of heaven and of earth. Fact|date=February 2007

En-men-dur-ana was extremely significant to the Sumerians, as he was the ancestor from whom all priests had to be able to trace descent.Fact|date=February 2007

He is sometimes linked to the Biblical patriarch Enoch.Fact|date=June 2007

ee also

*History of Sumer
*Sippar
*Sumerian king list
*Mesopotamian mythology

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