Weather god

In many cultures of Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia, a weather god was worshiped.

Işkur

The Sumerians called the Weather God işkur. In the south of Mesopotamia came his destructive abilities such as storms, floods and droughts in the foreground. This was mainly due the fact that he in the south where no rainfed, irrigated but prevailed işkur not " required " as rain donor.

Ba'al

In Ugaritic - Phoenician Ba'al room was worshiped as fertility and weather god. He was presented with a helmet and two bull's horns.

Hadad

The Semitic weather god Hadad is venerated as early as the third millennium BC in northern Syria. His sanctuary was in Aleppo. In Mesopotamia, he was revered around the city Qarqar a blessing donor. Hadad / Adad in Akkadian mythology, son of An and husband of Ninhursanga. Adad's symbolic animal, the bull, his attribute was a flash - either in one hand or alone.

Taru

The Hattiern the weather god Taru said.

Tarḫunna

Even with the Hittites of the weather god Tarḫunna stood at the head of the pantheon. The Luwians he was called Tarhunt. The name appears at the Lycians as Trqqis, which was equated with the Greek Zeus.

Jupiter Dolichenus

In Roman times, the Syrian weather god was as Jupiter Dolichenus by the Roman military spread to Central Europe.

Teššup

The Hurrians was the weather god Teššup and stood at the head of the pantheon. In the western Hurrians he was married to HEPAT and his son was Šarruma, the daughter Allanzu. Teššups most important place of worship was Aleppo. There was the high point of his cult in the second millennium BC; in the first millennium BC, however, a worship can hardly be detected.

Teišeba

In the kingdom of Urartu ( Eastern Anatolia ) was the weather god Teišeba.

Tinia

In the Etruscans the chief god Tinia ( Tins ) was called on as weather and vegetation god.

Christianity

In Christian culture is characterized by regions - rather tongue in cheek - the apostle Simon Peter, considered responsible for the weather and referred to in this context as " weather gods ". This write-up probably stems from the fact that he is responsible in medieval representations for opening and closing the gates of heaven. Peter has opened the floodgates sky, so wet weather is sometimes paraphrased pictorially in the vernacular.

Also known as cultural-historical successor to the Roman god Janus is Peter in close conjunction with meteorological phenomena.