Sargon the Great (reigned c. 2334-2279 BC)

Sargon’s origins, presented by Mrs. Sydney (Ethel) Bristow, linked Sargon and the biblical Cain, son of Adam and Eve. In an attempt to refute the mythologization of the Bible’s story of creation by modern scholars, Bristowe wrote Sargon the Magnificent. According to her theory, people known as pre-Adamites lived on the earth before Adam and Eve.7 This is the reason that Cain, who killed his brother Abel, feared he would be killed by “anyone who finds him” if he had to leave Eden as a punishment for his sin.8 The Land of Nod to which Cain journeyed may have been Akkad, the region now associated with Sargon’s 




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Sargon the Great (reigned c. 2334-2279 BC) was ruler of Mesopotamia near the end of the Early Bronze Age.

 Sargon,” likely written long after Sargon’s death, provides a great example of a work of historical fiction that may contain some historical fact. It provides some rare clues about Sargon’s early life, or at least the life Sargon wanted his scribes to portray. In James B. Pritchard’s 1958 translation of the legend, Sargon’s mother was a “changeling,” and he “knew not” his father. Sargon’s mother bore him in secret in the city of Azupiranu, placed him in a basket, and sent him floating down the Euphrates. A “drawer of water” named Akki rescued him and raised him. Sargon became a gardener for Akki. The goddess Ishtar fell in love with Sargon and helped him become king and ruler over various people and places. Sargon’s legend ends with a prayer that his successor would travel, conquer, and rule just as he had done



 He was a powerful and innovative warrior who brutally subdued his opponents and established a precedent for imperialism in Mesopotamia.1 Ruling from the archaeologically lost city of Akkad, perhaps near modern Baghdad, he established what might have been the world’s first empire. Sargon expanded his influence beyond Akkad and the neighboring cities to build an empire that encompassed much of the Fertile Crescent at a time when most other rulers controlled only individual city-states, foreshadowing later conquerors such as Hammurabi, Tiglath-Pileser, and Nebuchadnezzar. Unfortunately, the historical Sargon and the legendary Sargon are inseparably blurred due to the lack of historical sources and the aggrandizement of various traditional accounts. As a result, historians have only a vague historical image of Sargon, a man whose enormous accomplishments arguably merit the numerous legends and traditions about him. Sargon was a powerful warrior and the first great empire builder of Mesopotamia.

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