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Lineage	?
Sex	Male
Full name (at birth)	Adam
Wiki-page	wikipedia:Adam

Events

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Notes

This person is given by some authors as a "make believe" person

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• Not to be confused with The mythologized version of the first man

ru:Adamo (Popolo Delle Sacre Scritture, b. -3759 d. -2829) Judeo/Christian Mythology

ru:Adam Rasulullah Alaihi Salam (The Prophet No. 1) (дубль) (?, b. -5872 d. -4942) Islamic Mythology

Adam is a prime example of an Amalgamated Hero^[1]. An amalgamated hero^{Ref needed !} is one where the deeds and qualities of several individuals are lumped into one and centered around a single individual. This individual is then relegated to the status of mythological as more deeds and qualities are attributed to them after their death. The problem is that sometimes the myth can no longer be separated from the mythologized individual. Sometimes however emerging scientific and archaeological evidence allows us to distinguish reality and myth and at that point an individual can emerge to be located in time/history through discovery of contemporary records that can be corroborated by the hard sciences (Paleography, Archaeology, Geography, Microbiology/DNA etc).

Historical Adam

This king is the same king^{Ref needed !} that appears as the ancestor of both Melchizedek and Abraham in the ancient historical texts of the Middle-East (Kassite period, 16th-14th century BC). Dismissing the mythological attributes of the story allows us^Who? to date this king to the founding of Eridu around ca. 5400 BC. Eridu is according to the archaeological record^{Ref needed !} the oldest found human settlement in the region. (Second only to Gobeketepli^{Ref needed !}) in the upper regions of the Levant.

The mostly likely candidate for an historical Adam was Eanatum the son of king Alulim of Sumeria whose capital was located in Eridu^{Ref needed !}. In the earliest written texts of the Sumerians this mortal king Eanatum/Etana (Adana) is the impotent king who after having eaten of the tree of life sired a son named Balih (Abel). In the texts of the Sumerians Eanatum's height is given as 5 cubits and 1 span (9 feet 2 inches, 2.79 meters)

The Sumerians attribute this king with a reign of 1,500 years between the years 14,434-12,934. Again these years are clearly mythological or else the Sumerian calendar was based on something other than a standard solar or lunar year^{Ref needed !}. It is possible that the Ancient Sumerians and their near neighbors used a calendering system which was based on a seasonal or semi-annual Floodcycle (weeks or days) may have been in use resulting in some very skewed reporting relative to human longevity and regnal lengths. Additionally it is believed by some scholars that the Sumerian Kings list may be represent a list of extraterrestrial beings^Yeepee! with exceptional lifespans who were worshiped as gods by the early human populations, whereas others believe the kings lists may be a sort of summary (mnemonic device) to capture and preserve the memory of lands and dynasties long past. With the advances in the field of Genetics stretching the timeline of human origins beyond the boundaries of recorded history the legendary and mythological origins of the Sumerians becomes worth saving, with the caveat that emergence from the Ice age would have rendered any geographical reference moot since the survivors of such and event would have built new cities and countries named after the old ones which existed prior to existing written records. The genealogy of Eanatum can be reconstructed from surviving Mesopotamian texts to the 4th generation before being merged with the general Sumerian kings lists.

The Myth of Etana/Adana and his son Balih correspond directly to the Adam/Abel of the Habiru, and the Atman/Apis-Abel of the Egyptians. All of which feature a tree of life motif. The genealogy represented here is based on the Egyptian and Sumerian, and Indo Parthian traditions with references to concurrent myths of the surrounding people (who no doubt were trade partners, allies, and enemies of the Sumerians and early Mesopotamian people). The Egyptian records in this instance are used because of the substantial temporal record which allows us to assign reasonable regnal lengths to the history of these kings and locate them in place and time. The wealth of preserved archaeological and pictographic evidence among the Egyptians confirms the common history and has survived the general destructive forces of man and nature.

The year of the treaty is generally accepted as 2550 BCE however this dating is still problematic, the possibility that the records are older exists.

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1. ↑ wk:List of Amalgam Comics characters

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