
SARGON -
history tells he was Lugal ginna , he killed his brother Shalmaneser in order to have the throne of Tiglath Pileser |III, the king of Bbabylon
parallel to the bible Cain killed his brother Abel in contest to the blessing of the Lord
The historical claim of identity of Sargon with Cain comes from the Babylonian records
. The fourth chapter of Genesis, states that by Cain wandered in the "Land of nod," and he built city and which he "called after the name of his son Enoch," ..... the Babylonian city Unuk or Erech identifying Unuk with the Enoch of Genesis, the city built by Kain in commemoration of his son." ...
Unuk or "Erech appears to have been one of the centers of Semitic influence in Babylonia from a very early period."
"His career began with the conquest of Erech." Erech is called "the old city" and the "place of the settlement"
The generations of the children of Adam were presumably superhuman in both mind and body, which would account for the great ages to which they lived. Cain (divinely protected by some mysterious mark) became the leader, teacher and and master of an inferior people
Tubal Cain's ancestor Cain may have taken the knowledge of arts and crafts into Babylonia. The tempter had told Eve that the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge would make her and Adam as "gods";
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