Explore: Adad (deity)

Hadad (Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎄, romanized: Haddu), Haddad, Adad (Akkadian: 𒀭𒅎 DIM, pronounced as Adād), or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm- and rain-god in the

bukrat Adad, "daughter of Adad." A further deity belonging to the court of Adad and Shala in god lists was Nimgir ("lightning"), the sukkal of Adad/Ishkur

Originally it was assumed that the list was first written in the time of Shamshi-Adad I c. 1800 BC but it now is considered to date from much later, probably from

Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. A rarer form, 'ila, represents

pertaining to Adad. The Tākultu texts indicate that his bulls Šeri and Ḫurri were incorporated into the circle of deities associated with Adad in both Assur

weather god or goddess, also frequently known as a storm god or goddess, is a deity in mythology associated with weather phenomena such as thunder, snow, lightning

mythology, Zojz in Albanian mythology, and Perun in ancient Slavic religion. Adad, Bel, Ishkur, Marduk (Babylonian-Assyrian mythology) Baʿal, Hadad (Canaanite

22 she is the seventh deity mentioned, after Adad, Adad of Aleppo, Dagan of Tuttul, Hadabal of Arugadu, the Eblaite sun deity, Resheph of Aidu (a sparsely

may be the same god as Milcom, Adad-Milki, or an epithet for Baal. G. C. Heider and John Day connect Moloch with a deity Mlk attested at Ugarit and Malik

A fertility deity is a god or goddess associated with fertility, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and crops. In some cases these deities are directly associated