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First city after the flood (Nippur), maybe most important Sumerian city.
"King of Kish" prestigious title came to mean:
šar kiššatim ("King of Everything" or "King of the Universe")
Kassites probably derive their names from this legendary city. (if only in the sense of Roma deriving from Rome: by referring to former greatness)
The names of the next Early dynastic nine kings of Kish preceding Etana are all Akkadian words for animals, e.g. Zuqaqip "scorpion"