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The word Akkadian turns up on this site in two very different worlds. In one it is a language and an empire in Mesopotamia, founded by Sargon around 2350 BC. In the other, the Theosophical one, it is the name of a race that ruled Atlantis a hundred thousand years ago. The pages rarely meet, so here I put them next to each other.
Sargon of Agade
The empire begins with one king. On Sumer: The First Known Civilization Sumer is taken over around 2350 BC by Sargon the Great, whose empire reached from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
We know him as Sargon of Akkad, or Sargon the Great.
History with Cy, Sumerians and early Mesopotamia, at 42:13
See Sumer from the first cities to the fall of Ur. His name stands in the Sumerian King List, and on Dynasties of Kish Ur-Zababa of Kish is his contemporary. On Zénaïde A. Ragozin’s The Story of Chaldea I follow the older dating of 1886, which put Sargon at 3800 BC.
A baby in a basket
Sargon’s birth story sounds familiar. On Exodus, Moses and Egyptian history I compare it with Moses: both are placed in a basket and set adrift on a river by their mothers.
The language of the gods
Much of what we call Mesopotamian religion reaches us in Akkadian. Babylon itself is the Akkadian Babilim, the Gate of the Gods, see Babylon’s connection with Atlantis. Ishtar is the Akkadian name of Inanna, see Ishtar. The storm god has an Akkadian title too:
In Akkadian, Adad is also known as Rammanu ("Thunderer")
Wikipedia, Hadad
See Hadad and Baal. The flood hero has an Akkadian name as well, Utnapishtim, see Utnapishtim, Ziusudra, and Noah. And on Who Are the Anunnaki? I look at what the word meant in Akkadian use.
The Akkadians of Atlantis
W. Scott-Elliot, in The Story of Atlantis, lists the Akkadians as the sixth sub-race of the Atlanteans. In his account they beat the Semites in war and took their capital:
It was in the third map period, about 100,000 years ago, that the Akkadians finally overthrew the Semite power.
W. Scott-Elliot
He makes them traders and sailors who spread east and helped to people Egypt, and he gives them Stonehenge. See The Story of Atlantis. James Churchward goes another way and counts the Akkadians and Sumerians among the children of Mu, see The Children of Mu.
Neighbors and enemies
The Akkadians fought the hill tribes of the east. On Mount Zagros I follow the Gutians, who came down from the mountains after the Akkadian empire. For the timeline of all these peoples, see Chronological Nations and Tribes.
Related pages
- Sumer: The First Known Civilization
- Sumerian King List
- Babylon
- The Assyrians
- The Story of Atlantis
- Ishtar
- Utnapishtim, Ziusudra, and Noah
For every page I tagged with Akkadians, see the Akkadians tag archive.
