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ertY.' and deposting them in the temple
of Eel But this success of the sumner
ians. who were the natural rulers Of
kensi. was evidently short-lived for
presently another king of KIsh. Ur-Shul-
pauddu, is found to have offered several
inscribed vases in the temple of Nippur
to Inlil lord OF lands, and To Ninlil. mis-
tress OF heaven and earth, cousort to
1ulil.
NORTHERN iORDES.
"'1t is quite evident from the inscrip-
tons that Babyionia or kengi was bting
steadily cncroached upon by the foreign
hordos who dwelt to the north. Tho
Sumcrilns represented the culture of the
world and Kcng was their ancestral
home. How far back into the past their
civilization extended is. of course, un-
known, but it was very old. even ut that
time, for they had already apparently
reached that Stage of martial enervation
which seems to have been the fate of most
advanced civilizations. The invaders, on
the other hand. were Semites, and they
carried on their conquests with the Vieor
Of younger nation. Kish, which orGinal-
~ formed part of Kcngi, became their
most southcry outpost, ana from 1t they
Slapped the strength of the Sumcrian civil
liHAtion. The victory of Cr-Sulpauddu
was apparently complete, but whether IT
was shortly wrested from him, or whether
nc ruled long time. the fragmcntary rs
cord does not reveal Perhaps the end of
the Sumerian supremacy WAS inevitable,
for at last. when tn" moment for their
suppression was at hand LugalzaSgisi APP
reared
'Luealzaggisi was the son Of "Ukush,
patesi of gsh- Ban, or as it rs written in
the Scriptures, Haran Gen. Xii, ~, and
he was the chief commander of the inVaI-
ing army. He was the Alexander Of tho
time, sweeping everything before him,
from the Mediterranean sea to the Per
sian Gulf. a remarkable CorroboratiOn Of
the historical certainty of many OF the
facts recorded in Genesis. Negative crit
les have endeavored to resolve the ac-
count Of the four eastern kings who
marched against tho kings of Palestine
into a myth. They contend that an in
vasion of such proportions as is mention
ed would have been impossible
in Abrahams time. Yet Lugalzaggisi
GioJ +. @. who lived 900 years before
the time of Abra ham. says in his iEsCrip-
lions that he had extended this conquest
to the Mediterranean. 1t might also he
said, In passing, that Saigon $500 Il. CD,
who hourshed long after LugalzaEgisi,
and yet long before Abraham 100 b. &.
or thereabouts), left inscriptions which
show that he carried or four campaigns
to the Mediterranean. until at last he sub
dued the Amorites, of whom records have
been round III Cyprus. Lugalzaggisi's in
Scrlptions also tend to prove the Biblica
statement that the Semites came from tn,
north to be correct, and that we mus
look for the origin of the race in Armenia
Ukush. the father of the world conqueror
and priest king of liaran, was a Semitic
as his name indicates
'Lugalzaggisi made Erech Gen. 10 10
/ the capital of his world.
" He can hardly have been the first Sc
mite who adopted the Sumerian pantheon
a
The worship OF Jehovah may have beer
generally Supplanted by the Sumeran re
ligion long before his time. However tn,
Semtes appreciated the evidence OF en-
tural difference between their own mor
OF less barbarous habits and those of tn,
Sumcriaus, who were Hamitic, for the.
followed the traditions of the latter Il
such an extent that little or nothing o
hat which is purely Semitic has com
down to us. In language, writing, man
ncr of living, etc, Lugalzaggisi made tn
whole world Sumeran. Probably he raise
the standard of the world higher in pro
portion to its previous condition than an
ruler before or since--this. of course, wit
the single element of religion left out
He carved his achievements on vases o
stone and placed them in the sanctuar
Of the temple of Bel, where they RENAME
intact until that famous Elimitic raic
when they were smashed into the frag
ments found and decphered by Prof. Hi
preCht,
IUGALZAGGISIS TITLES
The language used by the ancicu
king was even poetic:
when Inlil lord of the lands, invest
ed Lugazasgisi with the kingdom of IN
world, when he filled the lands with hi
rcnown and subdued the country from tn
rise of the sun to the setting of the sun
at that time he Strengthened his pat
: from the lower sea of the Tigris an
, Euphrates to the upper sea and granite
him the dominion of everything from I'll
= rise OF the sun to the setting Of the SUI
and cHllsnn the Countries to dwell