Ruler
Epithet
Reign
Years
Est
Comments
Mesh-ki-ang-gasher of E-ana
"the son of Utu"
324
ca. 27th
"Mesh-ki-ang-gasher entered the sea and disappeared."
Enmerkar
"the son of Mesh-ki-ang-gasher, the king of Unug, who built Unug (Uruk)"
420
Lugalbanda
"the shepherd"
1200
Father of Gilgamesh
Dumuzid (Dumuzi)
"the fisherman whose city was Kuara."
("He captured En-me-barage-si single-handed.")*
100
ca. 2600 BCE
Gilgamesh
"whose father was a phantom (?), the lord of Kulaba"
126
ca. 2600 BCE
peer to Aga of Kish, IAW Epic of Gilgamesh]
Ur-Nungal
"the son of Gilgamesh"
30
Udul-kalama
"the son of Ur-Nungal"
15
La-ba'shum
9
En-nun-tarah-ana
8
Mesh-he
"the smith"
36
Melem-ana
6
Lugal-kitun
36
"Then Unug was defeated and the kingship was taken to Urim (Ur)."
Table 5: Kings of Uruk
Wide geographic discovery of the tablets relating to the Gilgamesh epic occurred throughout the Middle East, with concentrations found in the late second millennium BCE. Samples included tablets found in Megiddo written in Akkadian. Others were found in Emar on the mid-Euphrates. Versions were found in Akkadian, Hittite, and Hurrian languages discussed at Hattusa’s Hittite capital in Northern Anatolia. Versions found in Nineveh in the seventh century were dated to a time during the Kassite Kingship of Senacherib.
No one knows why the famous epic was written, but its introduction to the contemporary gods of Mesopotamia coincides with the names used in the Atrahasis, including the major members of the Anunnaki Counciclass="underline" namely Enlil, Enki, and Anu. Gilgamesh’s heroic and emotion laden quest for eternal life, like his Anunnaki ancestors possessed, appealed to audiences for centuries throughout the entire region. Gilgamesh knew as king that the humans created by Enki had a limited lifespan to only 120 years. The sensitive king anguished over the loss of life, and dreadfully feared his own death because of his genetic lack, although demigods like the lucky king lived far longer than 120 years, as evidenced by the long lives annotated in Genesis 4 and his many deeds in ancient Mesopotamia.
The Anunnaki were partaking of life prolonging Starfire gold to mitigate the effects of the rapid solar cycles experienced on earth in order to prevent their telomeres from deteriorating [48, pg. 253]. Thus the Anunnaki appeared immortal to humans or to have everlasting life. The records do not indicate that king Gilgamesh was afforded the same life prolonging luxury. Gilgamesh knew that because of his diluted Anunnaki blood that he would not be afforded the same eternal lifespan of his mother Ninsun.
Press Release Nobel Prize 2009-10-05
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
jointly to
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
for the discovery of
"how chromosomes are protected
by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
Brief mention was published about the Nobel Prize winning scientists Blackburn, Greider and Szostak. Research on human chromosomes and the effects that telomere deterioration, or lack thereof, has on human aging, were awarded the Nobel Prize in the year 2009.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the scientists having solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied during cell divisions without suffering degradation. The Nobel Laureates found that the enzyme telomerase helps protect telomeres from aging.
The long, thread-like DNA molecules that carry our genes are packed into chromosomes, the telomeres being the caps on their ends. Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak discovered that a unique DNA sequence in the telomeres protects the chromosomes from degradation. Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn identified telomerase, the enzyme that makes telomere DNA. These discoveries explained how the ends of the chromosomes are protected by the telomeres and that they are built by telomerase.
If the telomeres are shortened, cells age. Conversely, if telomerase activity is high, telomere length is maintained, and cellular damage is delayed. This is the case in cancer cells, which can be considered to have eternal life. Certain inherited diseases, in contrast, are characterized by a defective telomerase, resulting in damaged cells. The award of the Nobel Prize recognizes the discovery of a fundamental mechanism in the cell, a discovery that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies. Seems like ancient knowledge about anti-aging is just now being re-discovered. The Anunnaki mention aging as a problem for them on Earth. They found solutions, the ultimate being Starfire gold, reserved for the elite. It would be interesting to do a comparative study using modern medical techniques to determine the precursors for telomerase as discussed in the 2009 Nobel Prize research.
Gilgamesh Longs for Eternal Life
Being king has its perks. One of which, tantalizing as it must have been for Gilgamesh, was having access to otherwise forbidden knowledge kept by the alien astronauts in his own backyard of Uruk. Inanna and Anu both had temples in Uruk. The Anunnaki guarded the ME’s, which were reported to be 94 in total containing, information for the ancient astronauts to roll out the full aspects of civilizations on a remote planet. The knowledge stored on these ME tablets, most likely contained technical details about genetics and their link to what seemed to be eternal life spans lived by the gods.
The extent to which Gilgamesh knew about the role genetics played in long life, as witnessed by the longevity of the Anunnaki enshrined as gods and deified in Mesopotamia, propelled him in the quest to obtain it for himself. Following the last great deluge to hit Mesopotamia, of which there was more than one, Ziusudra (AKA Atrahasis/Noah) and his family landed on Mount Ararat aboard his famed ark, as instructed by his father Enki. Enlil, while soaring aloft along with several other Anunnaki key figures surveying flood damage, spotted Ziusudra and his ark and was infuriated that one or more of the humans had survived the catastrophe. Later that evening, while conducting an offering at an impromptu altar he built onsite, Ziusudra had an encounter with Enlil and Enki where the truth of his bloodline is revealed. Enki admits that he is Ziusudra’s father, and that is why he saved him from the destructive deluge.