I find it interesting that the Sumerian King List exhibits the same behaviour. The earliest kings rule for tens of thousands of years (each), the second wave r

I find it interesting that the Sumerian King List exhibits the same behaviour. The earliest kings rule for tens of thousands of years (each), the second wave rule for hundreds of years, and the third wave rule for tens of years ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List ). So I'm left with three thoughts that don't necessarily agree with each other. One, is that it seems fairly obvious that there's some transition from oral histories to written histories; and the closer the event was to the written record, the more realistic it gets (which we also see in the OT). Two, is that there's a lot of crossover between Sumerian kings and Gods, so it doesn't seem inappropriate for the oral tradition to imbue kings with god-like properties. (As an aside - I can easily imagine that in tens of thousands of years from now, with fragments of records remaining, someone could argue with a straight face that the early space-agers actually believed Queen Elizabeth was immortal and semi-lizard. This is obviously comical, but does illustrate the risks of an oral tradition.) And three - the possibility that there's intermingling between these two traditions? Or that there's some cultural factors here where we're seeing the effects without the causes (ie we're not seeing why it was popular to assign these characteristics to ancestors, only that they did so). But to come back a little more on-topic - Sumer is also where we get the sexagesimal (base-60) numbering that we still see in time & angles. So when comparing units, there could be some mistranslation between different number bases at some point.