Etana
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Etana is remembered as an early king of Kiš, 'the shepherd who ascended to heaven.' In the Akkadian myth that bears his name, the childless king seeks the 'plant of birth' and is carried up through the heavens on the back of an eagle whose broken friendship with a snake he had earlier healed; as the earth shrinks below, Etana grows afraid, and the surviving tablets break off. The Sumerian King List names him among the kings of the First Dynasty of Kiš.
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Kiš
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Known through legend. The Sumerian King List names him among the kings of the First Dynasty of Kiš as "the shepherd who ascended to heaven".
About Kiš
An ancient northern-Sumerian city (modern Tell al-Uhaymir) whose kingship was a byword for hegemony in the Sumerian King List. The pin marks the tablet's findspot.
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