In the monarch category, Rubekistan selects Gilgamesh!
Gilgamesh (
Akkadian cuneiform:
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],
Gilgameš, also known as
Bilgames in the earliest text
[1]) was the fifth king of
Uruk (Early Dynastic II, first dynasty of Uruk), ruling 126 years, according to the
Sumerian king list. He was said to be contemporary with some of the earliest archaeologically-known figures, placing his reign ca. 2500 BC. According to the
Tummal Inscription,[2] Gilgamesh, and his son Urlugal, rebuilt the sanctuary of the goddess
Ninlil, in Tummal, a sacred quarter in her city of
Nippur. Gilgamesh is the central character in the
Epic of Gilgamesh, the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. In the epic his father was
Lugalbanda and his mother was
Ninsun (whom some call Rimat Ninsun), a goddess. In
Mesopotamian mythology, Gilgamesh is credited with having been a
demigod of superhuman strength who built a great city wall to defend his people from external threats and travelled to meet
Utnapishtim, the sage who had survived the
Great Deluge.