En-men-gal-ana was a babylonian king who lived to see the prime and the best of Babylon before the gods sent a flood that would cleanse the earth from the noise the humans made.
Who was En-men-gal-ana?
And what made him so special?
En-men-gal-ana was the king of Eritru, the name of Ancient Sumer before the gods let it be poured by the waters.
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The god Enlil was fond of and took great care of En-men-gal-ana, and he was the one who gave him the power of breathing under the water.
En-men-gal-ana and his family were allowed the gift of being able to breathe under the water and they were given knowledge by Enlil.
Enlil gave them the secrets of rags and hair-dying techniques as well as many secrets of magic.
En-men-gal-ana was blessed by the gods and his kingdom allowed many people to prosper.
En-men-gal-ana's wife Eleen was a water-witch who helped him with the kingdom and to appease the gods.
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However, not everything was happiness.
A group of mongrels who disliked the royal family for not sharing their gardens (which were full of flowers and rivers that had healing properties) was able to inflitrate into the palace once and killed the guards and ran through all the palace to find En-men-gal-ana, Eleen and their children and then killed them.
However, by doing that, they unraveled the god's wrath and the gods cursed them by sending a plague over them and making the gardens disappear.
After the massacre, no king was able to gain the gods' favor as En-men-gal-ana had been able to, and in a fit of rage the god Enlil decided to cleanse the earth from the unworthy humans, but the air god Enki warned a commoner called Utanapishtim (who had gained Enki's favor) to build an ark and take his family, a couple of every animal species and plants with him for when the flood came.
And as the heavens filled the earth with water, Utanapishtim survived and with him a new order came.
