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Enmerkar
Sign in to saveEnmerkar () was an ancient Sumerian ruler to whom the construction of the city of Uruk and a 420-year reign was attributed. According to literary sources, he led various campaigns against the land of Aratta.
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Enmerkar was a male sovereign in Sumerian religion, with a floruit of 2700 BCE. He is listed in the Sumerian King List and is identified as the father of Ninsun. His father was Mesh-ki-ang-gasher. According to the provided dates, he was born in 3100 BCE and died in 3000 BCE.
The name Enmerkar is also associated with a United States-based musical group. This artist is categorized under genres including atmospheric black metal, black metal, dark ambient, and ambient black metal. The group has accumulated 3439 listeners and 50601 plays.
Quotes attributed to Enmerkar include statements regarding the city of Unug and the messenger Utu. One quote reads, "No city was made to be so well-built as the city of Unug." Another states, "May the people marvel admiringly, and may Utu witness it in joy." A third quote addresses a messenger: "Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!"
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 2007
Discography
- Starlit Passage2009
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,439
- Total plays
- 50,601
Tags
ENMERKAR began in 2007 in New York City, USA as an ambient, black metal project, by the sole member Morchiant. The concepts behind the music relate to mysticism, shamanism, and the Universe and its mysteries. The music combines black metal, post-metal and ambient music with distant vocals to create monolithic and ethereal soundscapes. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Enmerkar">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Quotes
- “No city was made to be so well-built as the city of Unug.”
- “May the people marvel admiringly, and may Utu witness it in joy.”
- “Lest I make the people fly off from that city like a wild dove from its tree, lest I make them fly around like a bird over its well-founded nest.”
- “Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!”
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Enmerkar
- Royalty.dynasty
- Uruk 1
- Royalty.succession
- King of Uruk
- Royalty.image
- Priest-king from Uruk, Mesopotamia, Iraq, c. 3000 BCE. The Iraq Museum (transparent).png
- Royalty.caption
- Priest-king of Uruk from the Late Uruk Period
- Military conflict.conflict
- Enmerkar's campaigns against Aratta
- Military conflict.date
- 3250 BC
- Military conflict.place
- Aratta (now Iraq)
- Military conflict.result
- Uruk victory
- Military conflict.combatant1
- Uruk
- Military conflict.combatant2
- Aratta
- Military conflict.commander1
- Enmerkar
- Military conflict.commander2
- unknown
- Military conflict.casualties1
- unknown
- Military conflict.casualties2
- unknown
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Historical king
- Late Uruk period
- Expeditions to Aratta
- Akkad
- Matter of Aratta
- Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
- Enmerkar and Ensuhgirana
- Lugalbanda poems
- Later influence
- In antiquity
- Identification as Nimrod
- Notes
- References
- External links
Enmerkar () was an ancient Sumerian ruler to whom the construction of the city of Uruk and a 420-year reign was attributed. According to literary sources, he led various campaigns against the land of Aratta.
He is credited in Sumerian legend as the inventor of writing. An excerpt of an ancient text states "Because the messenger's mouth was heavy and he couldn't repeat (the message), the Lord of Kulaba (Enmerkar) patted some clay and put words on it, like a tablet. Until then, there had been no putting words on clay." This is the earliest known story in history about the invention of writing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Enmerkar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.