En-men-lu-ana is a deity in Mesopotamian folklore, from Sumer (southern Mesopotamia). En-men-lu-ana is a name preserved in the antediluvian section of the Sumerian King List as an early ruler associated with the city of Bad-tibira, credited in the SKL with an extraordinarily long reign (c. 43,200 years). He is treated in modern summaries as part of the SKL’s sequence of legendary/antediluvian kings and is not attested in contemporary documentary sources in the material provided.
En-men-lu-ana appears in the Sumerian King List (SKL) tradition as one of the antediluvian rulers placed at the beginning of the SKL’s ordered sequence of kings and cities. In the version cited in the provided summaries he is listed as the first king of Bad-tibira and in that sequence is succeeded by En-men-gal-ana. The SKL frames these earliest names within a mythic, pre-flood chronology by assigning them extraordinarily long regnal durations; En-men-lu-ana’s assigned reign (given in the modern summary) is c. 43,200 years. Modern treatments summarized in the provided sources note that early SKL kings are usually not considered historical unless independently attested, and En-men-lu-ana lacks contemporary documentary corroboration in the material supplied.
No physical description, iconography, or contemporaneous depiction of En-men-lu-ana is provided in the supplied sources. All information in the present material derives from the SKL entry (and modern summaries of it); there are no recorded bodily attributes or visual markers in the provided documents.
The provided sources do not ascribe specific supernatural powers, deeds, or behaviors to En-men-lu-ana beyond his placement in the SKL and the numerically large regnal length assigned to his rule. The available material treats him as a legendary/antediluvian ruler used by the SKL to mark sacred political chronology rather than as an active supernatural agent with recorded interventions or capabilities.
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