Person — Mythology Registry

Adapa Sage of Eridu in Mesopotamian myth and a priest of Enki , not a god. He forfeits the offer of immortality in the Myth of Adapa . Etana Wikidata Q335721 Sumerian ruler. Legendary king of Kish in Mesopotamian myth, carried toward heaven by an eagle in the Etana Myth . Gilgamesh Wikidata Q159709 Sumerian ruler and protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Hero-king of Uruk in Mesopotamian myth, a semi-divine figure who seeks immortality. Sargon Historical king of Akkad and founder of the Akkadian empire, remembered in later Mesopotamian legend. A distinct figure from Gilgamesh . Utnapishtim Wikidata Q767983 mythological character from ''The Epic of Gilgamesh''. Survivor of the Great Flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh , granted immortality by the gods. A man, not a god.

Enheduanna Wikidata Q232505 Akkadian princess; Sumerian high priestess of Nanna at Ur; poet and philosopher. Historical priestess and poet — EN-priestess of the moon god Nanna at Ur , daughter of Sargon of Akkad , and the earliest author known by name. Her hymns to Inanna survive; she was not herself deified.