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Sargon of Akkad, Sargon the Great, founded the first empire of Mesopotamia, and in my research he sits where Sumer ends and the Anunnaki stories meet the king lists. These are the pages where I wrote about him.
The end of Sumer
On Sumer: The First Known Civilization I follow Jim Marrs on how Sumer fell:
About 2400 BC, Sumer was invaded from the west and north by Semitic tribes, and by about 2350 BC was captive to the warrior king Sargon the Great, who founded the Semite Akkadian Dynasty, whose empire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
Jim Marrs, Our Occulted History
On Chronological Nations and Tribes the Akkadians formed one of the first empires, uniting much of Mesopotamia under Sargon the Great. On Mount Zagros Sargon of Akkad and later Assyrian and Babylonian kings campaigned in the Zagros to secure their borders.
In the king lists
On Sumerian King List the list names Sargon in Agade, followed by Rimush, son of Sargon. On Dynasties of Kish Ur-Zababa of Kish is the contemporary of Sargon of Akkad mentioned in legends.
Sargon and the gods
On Who is Anu? Jim Marrs writes that Sargon attributed his knowledge to the god Anu, while Hammurabi was said to have gained power through Marduk. On Cloud by day, luminous sign by night Akkadian royal inscriptions of Sargon of Agade, around 2300 BCE, say the gods led the king’s army with a radiant cloud by day and a star-like fire by night.
A model for Nimrod and Moses
On The origin of Nimrod one approach identifies Nimrod with historical figures, Sargon of Akkad among them. On Exodus, Moses and Egyptian history the birth story of Moses is set beside the earlier legend of Sargon, placed in a basket by his mother and set adrift in a river.
Related pages
- Sumer: The First Known Civilization
- Chronological Nations and Tribes
- Mount Zagros
- Sumerian King List
- Dynasties of Kish
- Who is Anu?
- Cloud by day, luminous sign by night
- The origin of Nimrod
- Exodus, Moses and Egyptian history
For every page I tagged with Sargon, see the Sargon tag archive.
