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Ubara-tutu (or Ubartutu) of Shuruppak was the last antediluvian king of Sumer, according to some versions of the Sumerian King List. He was said to have reigned for 18,600 years (5 sars and 1 ner). He was the son of En-men-dur-ana, a Sumerian mythological figure often compared to Enoch, as he entered heaven without dying. Ubara-Tutu was the king of Sumer until a flood swept over his land.

Ubara-tutu is briefly mentioned in tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh. He is identified as the father of Utnapishtim (or Uta-napishtim), a character who is instructed by the god Ea to build a boat in order to survive the coming flood.

Other Comparative Observations, outside of Enoch and a flood narrative, include:

• Epic of Gilgamesh Table 11 & Firmament

• Encyclopaedia Judaica extract references to Mesopotamia

• Šamaš Religious Text comparison to Hebrew

• Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible references to Nimrod, Shamash, etc.

• Traces of the Worship of the Moon God Sîn among the Early Israelites via JSTOR

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Source (Image 1-2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubara-Tutu

Source (Image 3): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch

Source (Image 4): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh#Tablet_eleven

Source (Image 5): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament

Source (Image 6): https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sun

Source (Image 7-8): https://archive.org/details/samasreligiouste00grayrich/page/10/mode/1up

Source (Image 9): https://www.friendsofsabbath.org/Further_Research/e-books/Dictionary-of-Deities-and-Demons-in-the-Bible.pdf

Source (Image 10): https://www.stepbible.org/?q=version=KJV@reference=Gen.10.6-Gen.10.20&options=VHNUG

Source (Image 11): https://www.jstor.org/stable/3264069

Source (Image 12): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/380602001

Image: Punishment of captured impostors and conspirators: Gaumāta lies under the boot of Darius the Great. The last person in line, wearing a traditional Scythian hat and costume, is identified as Skunkha. His image was added after the inscription was completed, requiring some of the text be removed.

The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great (r. 522–486 BC). It was important to the decipherment of cuneiform, as it is the longest known trilingual cuneiform inscription, written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian (a variety of Akkadian).

Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage. Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the death of Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year (ending in December 521 BC) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire. The inscription states in detail that the rebellions were orchestrated by several impostors and their co-conspirators in various cities throughout the empire, each of whom falsely proclaimed himself king during the upheaval following Cambyses II's death. Darius the Great proclaimed himself victorious in all battles during the period of upheaval, attributing his success to the "grace of Ahura Mazda".

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The gold and silver tablets retrieved from the stone boxes contained a trilingual inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian, which describes his Empire in broad geographical terms, and is known as the DPh inscription:

Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid. King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush, and from Sind (Old Persian: 𐏃𐎡𐎭𐎢𐎺, "Hidauv", locative of "Hiduš") to Lydia (Old Persian: "Spardâ") - [this is] what Ahuramazda, the greatest of gods, bestowed upon me. May Ahuramazda protect me and my royal house!

Additional context in the form of textual, geographical, genetic, and visual observations:

(1) Deposition plate of Darius I in Persepolis; (2) The Behistun Inscription; (3) aDNA/Ancient DNA reveals traces of ancient African empires (reference to the Achaemenid Empire, etc.); and (4) Ancient Persian Archers (Pergamon Museum / Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin) and Brick Panel from Susa, Apadana, Palace of Darius (Louvre, SB 3325).

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Source (Image 1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun_Inscription

Source (Video/Image 2): https://youtu.be/_bBRVNkAfkQ?si=rKFXJ9ryzV-wf7PH

Source (Image 3a): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apadana_hoard

Source (Image 3b): https://isac.uchicago.edu/gallery/miscellaneous-finds#5A3_72dpi.png

Source (Image 4): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Achaemenid_Empire.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Source (Image 5): https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-023-00126-y

Source (Image 6a): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sphinx_affrontés_sous_un_globe_ailé_(Louvre,_Sb_3325).jpg

Source (Image 6b): https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010177290

Source (Image 7): https://www.worldhistory.org/image/147/persian-archers/by

Es para mi vídeo sobre el acadio, luego haré un vídeo sobre el sumerio.