Currently the coastline of the Persian Gulf is far more south and Eridu is in the desert.

Modern name for eridu. If we lose the s we have aridu Although the area was originally arid God provided a generous supply of fresh water delivered by four primary rivers to the dry barren landscape. In Sumerian E-A means the house of water and it has been suggested that this was originally the name for the shrine to the god at Eridu. Alalngar ruled for 36000 years.

It was here that the temple of Marduk E-Sagila was located. Then Eridu fell and the kingship was taken to Bad-tibiraThe king list gave particularly long reigns to the kings who ruled. Eridu was revered as the oldest city in Sumer according to the king lists and its patron god was Enki Ea lord of the sweet waters that flow under the earth.

Such as the Goetia or Keys of Solomon which for all intents and purposes are rooted in a Judeo. The name Eridu seems to relate to the modern word arid. The Latin word aridus means dry arid or parched.

It is possible the name you are searching has less than five occurrences per year. Eridu Ancient name for modern Abu Shahrein. From this valuable and interesting document discovered in the temple library of Nippur ancient city of Mesopotamia we learn that one of the earliest and most sacred cities of the Sumerians Eridu ERIDU Home in the Faraway Built was the seat of the kingship.

When mans first civilization after the flood began in Eridu. Several modern occult writers have demonstrated that the Grimoire of Fifty Names may be successfully employed by operators for strictly ceremonial magic forms of spellcraftmuch like the more famous derivatives of the same. Eridu ancient Sumerian city south of modern Ur Tall al-Muqayyar Iraq.

They ruled for 64800 years. The tradition of listing Eridu as the first city was not continued in the royal ideology of Amar-Suen35 Neither did the kings of Isin ever list Eridu as the first city36 but only third in rank. Kingship in Eridu When kingship was first handed down from Heaven the concept of kingship the city of Eridu was chosen as the seat of kingship.