The Myth of Etana is the story of the Sumerian antediluvian King of Kish who ascends to heaven on an eagle to request the Plant of Birth from the gods so that he might have a son. Etana is named as the first king of Kish in the Sumerian King List which claims he reigned early in the 3rd millenium BCE. The text was first recognized in 1894 on fragments found in the ruins of the Library of Ashurbanipal.