Dynasty of Dunnum
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The Dynasty of Dunnum, sometimes called the Theogony of Dunnum or Dunnu or the Harab Myth, is an ancient Mesopotamian mythical tale of successive generations of gods who take power through parricide and live incestuously with their mothers and/or sisters, until, according to a reconstruction of the broken text, more acceptable behavior prevailed with the last generation of gods, Enlil and his twin sons Nušku and Ninurta, who share rule amicably. It is extant in a sole-surviving late Babylonian copy excavated from the site of the ancient city of Sippar by Hormuzd Rassam in the 19th century.
The original text for the Theogony of Dunnu is found in British Museum Tablet number 74329. Apparently the tablet is written in Akkadian, but in recent years it has appeared in German, French, and English translations. The earliest English version that we could locate was a Lambert and Walcott translation made in 1965 for Kadmos magazine, volume 4.