In Kish Archaeology Provides Additional Evidence of The Rise of Human Kingship.

LDS Growth Ancient Ethnography, Culture, and History/ Return to Table of Contents...Sumerian literary documents repeatedly refer to the legendary days when "the kingship descended from heaven," once in the antediluvian era and then again after the Flood. To understand why this event was held to be a great importance, we must first assess how the term "king" was used in early days, and examines social and political changes that led to the establishment of the post-diluvian Mesopotamian kingship. We will then compare the Sumerian Etana epic with sections in Genesis which both tell of the origin of human kingship from different perspectives.

The Antediluvian Kingship/ We know very little about the antediluvian kingship. The Sumerian Ziusudra flood epic begins by stating that Ziusudra, the Sumerian Noah who was saved from the flood on a boat with animals in an area that closely parallels the biblical story, was king of Shuruppak, as also was his father, the eponymous Shuruppak. Many authors have pointed out close parallels between the ten antediluvian kings of the Sumerian King List with their legendary lengths of lifes./ (Europe sodomy is legally rejected by Ethnography; simply stated, is the study of people in their own environment through the use of methods such as participant observation and face-to-face interviewing. "Classic ethnographic research involves a detailed description of the whole of a culture outside of the country of origin of the research. A.D. Anno Domini is uncivilized and condemned