October
19
/ 2020
According to the Sumerian King List, Lugalbanda was one of the kings who belonged to the First Dynasty of Uruk in Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia. What is particularly striking about Lugalbanda is the way in which he is portrayed as a great shaman in the legends told about him. In fact, the stories about Lugalbanda, which date back to the Ur III Period in ancient Sumer (about 2100 BC), constitute the earliest account of shamanistic travelling or journeying in world literature. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"78907","attributes":{"alt":"The story of Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Old-Babylonian period, from southern Iraq. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan. (Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/ CC BY-S A 4.0)","class":"media-image","height":"700","style":"height: 400px; width: 262px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"458"}}]][[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"78908","attributes":{"alt":"The story of Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Old-Babylonian period, from
