The Sumerians, very early, developed a religio-politico state which was extremely binding on all who lived in it (except for the rulers, who were a law unto themselves).

(The Hebrew name “Cush,” much later, was moved to present-day Ethiopia as migrations took place from Mesopotamia to other places.) The early post-Flood Sumerian king lists (not found in the Bible) say that “kingship descended from heaven to Kish” after the Flood. The first kingdom established after the Flood was Kish, and the name “Kish” appears often on clay tablets. We suggest that Sumerian Kish, the first city established in Mesopotamia after the Flood, took its name from the man known in the Bible as Cush. The sons of Shem-the Semites-were also mixed, to some extent, with the Sumerians. There developed the first civilization after the Flood. Cush lived in the “ land of Shinar” which most scholars consider to be Sumer. And it is obvious who the Canaanites were. In the post-Flood genealogical records of Genesis 10 we note that the sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.

These tablets may have a reaction, or twisted version, in their accounts of the Creation and Flood. Cultural Connections in the Ancient Near Eastīesides the stories of the Creation and Flood in the Bible there ought to be similar stories on clay tablets found in the cultures near and around the true believers. It is just the opposite! First, a little background study is necessary. Many consider this to be a positive, complimentary testimony about Nimrod.

Gilgamesh by Unknown