According to inscriptions describing the reforms of the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ( ca.

According to Samuel Noah Kramer in The Sacred Marriage Rite, in late Sumerian history kings established their legitimacy by taking part in the ceremony in the temple for one night, on the tenth day of the New Year festival Akitu.

According to the myth of Inanna's descent to the underworld, represented in parallel Sumerian and Akkadian tablets, Inanna ( Ishtar in the Akkadian texts ) set off for the netherworld, or Kur, which was ruled by her sister Ereshkigal, perhaps to take it as her own.

According to the Sumerian king list, Elam, Sumer's neighbor to the east, held the kingship in Sumer for a brief period, based in the city of Awan.

According to the Sumerian king list, " Larag " ( Sumerian: LA-RA-AK < sup > KI </ sup >) was one of the five cities to " exercise kingship " in the legendary antediluvian era.

According to Sitchin, Nibiru ( called " the twelfth planet " because, Sitchin claimed, the Sumerians ' gods-given conception of the Solar System counted all eight planets, plus Pluto, the Sun and the Moon ) was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth, who Sitchin states are called the Nephilim in Genesis.

According to semitologist Michael S. Heiser, the so-called sun on Seal VA 243 is not the Sumerian symbol for the sun but is a star, and the dots are also stars.

According to the British scholar G. R. Driver, the ethnonym originates even earlier, in 3rd millennium BC Sumerian records, as the name of a land called Karda or Qarda.

According to museum officials the looters concentrated on the heart of the exhibition: " the Warka Vase, a Sumerian alabaster piece more than 5, 000 years old ; a bronze Uruk statue from the Akkadian period, also 5, 000 years old, which weighs 660 pounds ; and the headless statue of Entemena.

According to the Sumerian King List, he was the son of Naram-Sin and reigned for 25 ( or 24 ) years-around 2100 BC.

According to Sumerian text Inanna's descent to the netherworld, there was a temple of Inanna named E-shar at Adab during the reign of Dumuzid of Uruk.

According to the Sumerian kings list, " In the army of Gutium, at first no king was famous ; they were their own kings and ruled thus for 3 years.

According to the Matsya Purana, his boat was perched after the deluge on the top of the Malaya Mountains This narrative is to an extent similar to other deluge stories, like those of Utnapishtim from ancient Sumerian Mythology, and the story of Noah's ark from Judeo-Christianity and Quran, a holy book of Islam.

According to John Halloran's Sumerian Lexicon, the meaning of GUL is " enormous " and " evil " but also the verb " to wreck, destroy utterly ".

According to the Sumerian King List, Bad-tibira was the second city to " exercise kingship " in Sumer before the flood, following Eridu.

According to Swadesh ( 1959: 114 ), it included " Vasconic, the Caucasian languages, Ural-Altaic, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, Chinese, Austronesian, Japanese, Chukchi ( Siberia ), Eskimo-Aleut, Wakash, and Na-Dene ", and possibly " Sumerian ".

According to the Sumerian king list, it was this Lugalbanda " the shepherd " who eventually succeeded Enmerkar to the throne of Uruk.

According to the Biblioteca, the " library " of mythology mis-attributed to Apollodorus, he fathered the Corybantes on the Muse Thalia.

According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.

According to Greek mythology, the amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from the Gorgon Medusa's head as Perseus flew over the Libyan Desert with it in his hand.

According to mythology, the dynasty ended around 1600 BC as a consequence of the Battle of Mingtiao.

According to scholars including Neil Forsyth and John L. McKenzie, the Old Testament incorporates stories, or fragments of stories, from extra-biblical mythology.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, " many scholars " see a link between stories in " Irish-Celtic mythology " about journeys to the Otherworld in search of a cauldron of rejuvenation and medieval accounts of the quest for the Holy Grail.

According to Carl Mitcham, " the Christian mythology of progress toward transcendent salvation " created the conditions for modern ideas of scientific and technological progress.

According to mythology, Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, daughter of Jupiter and Latona.

According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured.

According to German and Danish folklore, the Erlkönig appears as an omen of death, much like the banshee in Irish mythology.

According to South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

According to Greek mythology, hexameter was invented by the god Hermes.

According to the historical sources the ships ' prows carried carvings of menacing beasts, such as dragons and snakes, allegedly to protect the ship and crew, and to ward off the terrible sea monsters of Norse mythology.

According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta.

According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.

According to Schwartz, the Jewish people continue to elaborate on, and compose additions to, their traditional mythology.

According to the Hindu mythology, a land bridge existed between the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka.

According to Giorgio de Santillana, professor of the history of science at MIT, and student of mythology, the sampo and the world pillar both refer to the precession of the equinox.

According to Totonac mythology, the tropical orchid was born when Princess Xanat, forbidden by her father from marrying a mortal, fled to the forest with her lover.

According to Roman mythology, when Romulus and Remus founded Rome, they did so on the Palatine Hill according to Etruscan ritual ; that is, they began with a pomerium or sacred ditch.

According to Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework of the descendants of these early Australians, the Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral Totemic Spirit Beings formed The Creation.

According to the Neo-Sumerian mythological text Enki and Ninmah, Enki is the son of An and Nammu.