Sargon the great bible game

Sargon, strong king, king of Agade, am I. My mother was a high priestess, my father I do not know. My paternal kin inhabit the mountain region. My city of birth is Azupiranu, which lies on the bank of the Euphrates.

Who was sargon the great

My mother, a high priestess, conceived me, in secret she bore me. She placed me in a reed basket, with bitumen she caulked my hatch. She abandoned me to the river from which I could not escape. The river carried me along; to Aqqi, the water drawer, it brought me. Aqqi, the water drawer, when immersing his bucket lifted me up. Aqqi, the water drawer, raised me as his adopted son.

When she saw that he was a good child 8 , she hid him for three months. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.