After taking Shem captive, Gilgamesh then built the alternative house of his lord in the city of Akkad, naming it and its Akkadian Empire (c. 2334–2154 BC) after himself as [Arph]-axad / “land of the Chaldeans, this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof;” (Isaiah 23:13)
Using the classic Adversarial strategy of deceiving through confusing language, Gilgamesh too perverted YHVH’s Hebrew language, blending it with Sumerian to create the Akkadian language. Written using the Sumerian cuneiform script, prompting its use by numerous new languages in the region including Eblaite, Hurrian, Elamite, Old Persian and Hittite, and including Akkadian phonology, vocabulary and syntax. This clearly limited Hebrew and its records of YHVH from being transmitted to the burgeoning population.
Closely following in his ancestor Cain’s steps as adversary to the order of Melchizedek, Arphaxad / Gilgamesh gave himself yet another title – Sharru-ukin / true king.
The definition of true in this context is not as the opposite to false but “rightful because fully fulfilled, ideal, belonging to the same natural group, legitimate guaranteed“. Sargon was conducting a political campaign to win essential support from elites with resources. Think Donald Trump’s being voted into absolute world-wide power in the American democratic system.
His biggest rival was, of course, Noah’s party, the YHVHists whose proven success by their family’s survival, with livestock, of the world-wide flood that had wiped out every other living creature should have been a massive obstacle to defeating him. However, the biggest drawback to Melchizedek’s Monotheism is its insistence on “One Way, a strait [as in the Strait of Hormuz] gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life.” (Matthew 7:14), which Antichrists play to their advantage with “All Roads Lead To Rome”, i.e. many different ways of reaching the same goal.
As detailed in a previous post, the spirits of the drowned hybrids survived the flood as demons desperately seeking re-incorporation. It should be understood without having to be stated that promises of “friends with benefits” were being made to the many entrepreneurs in the Mesopotamian version of the Wild West Gold Rush.
What Sargon was asserting as “true” king is that he, not Noah with YHVH, nor any of his pagan rivals with their devil-may-care spirits, was imbued with greater power from on high like the pre-flood Supermen whose exploits inspired awe. And from all appearances, Sargon was the exception to the rule.
Unlike his rivals who identified themselves as sons / heirs of pre-flood gods and heroes / hybrids like Hercules, Sargon identified his paternity as purely human. But what a man! Famed world-wide for surviving the flood by the grace of YHVH who bequeathed dominion over the whole world to him as Adam’s / Enlil’s heir, which he passed on to Shem who Sargon was able to defeat and take possession of all his spiritual, i.e. empowering artifacts, thereby seizing – in the pagan paradigm – dominion over the whole world backed by YHVH himself!
Sargon is reported to have supported a court, i.e. standing army, of 5,400 men who “ate bread daily before him”. This is a credible number in an exponentially expanding population over Sargon’s extended lifetime.
An autobiography of Sargon is found on a tablet of the Old Babylonian period recovered at Nippur on the pedestal of a statue erected in the temple of Enlil / Divine Lord of the Earth / Adam.
- king of Akkad (city-state named after himself meaning “gathered together the people”.
- mashkim / overseer of Inanna / mother of all living / Earth Goddess / carrier of giant genes, mother of hybrids,
- guda / anointed / Chosen One, Messiah, Christ of Anu / Creator (in reality the antichrist)
- en-si / lord [of all] the land / granted covenant of dominion of creation as the only begotten / heir son of God, Melchizedek
- governor of [the line of] Enlil / Adam / Melchizedek
- king of Kish – Melchizedek’s capitol seized in battle as per previous post, establishing his authority as Melchizedek over the whole earth.
These claims documented within the dates established by archeology substantiate the identification of Sargon as Shem’s son Arph-axad / Gilgamesh.
Sargon conquered Ur and E-Ninmar and “laid waste” the territory from Lagash to the sea, and from there went on to conquer and destroy Umma, and he collected tribute from Mari and Elam. He triumphed over 34 cities in total. Ships from Meluhha, Magan and Dilmun rode at anchor in his capital of Akkad on the Tigris River. Submitting himself to the Levantine god Dagan in exchange for his support in his territory, Sargon conquered territories of Upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, including Mari, Yarmuti (Jarmuth?) and Ibla “up to the Cedar Forest (the Amanus) and up to the Silver Mountain (Aladagh?)”, ruling from the “upper sea” (Mediterranean) to the “lower sea” (Persian Gulf).
Indicating the importance of this site as entry to the god’s underworld, Babylon is documented as one of Sargon’s early rebuilding projects. However, notice that Babylon is missing on the above map, due to that site still being under water due to flood runoff in the Euphrates River for many years. Details in the relevant post on the difficulties accessing the exact pre-flood site. The Akkadian records confirm the biblical account that Babylon resurged only later under Sargon’s younger cousin Nimrod.
The speed with which Sargon changed society can be matched to how quickly Shaka Zulu Changed the World.
In 1816, Shaka Zulu began a campaign of conquest to unite all of the clans in the region under his rule.
Shaka began with a systematic reorganization of Zulu warriors. Zulu society — much like Sparta — was entirely restructured to support the army.
In just a couple of years, his army had brutally executed, displaced or assimilated a vast territory with more than 200,000 inhabitants who became his subjects.
Like Shaka Zulu’s appearance on the scene, warfare under Sargon in Mesopotamia changed from seizing property and slave labor between neighboring clans with a minimal loss of life into total destruction of the enemy on the battlefield.
The innovative tactics and military reforms of both Shaka Zulu and Sargon welded neighboring clans into a powerful empire. So it is no surprise that “for at least 1,500 years after his death, Sargon the Great was regarded as a semi-sacred figure, the patron saint of all subsequent empires in the Mesopotamian realm”.
In truth, Sargon is more accurately portrayed in gory movies than in elitists’ history books.
