Adad

Adad (also called " Hadad ," Semitic " Hadda ," Sumerian " işkur " dIM ) is the Mesopotamian god weather ( storm god ), son of Anu and husband of Ninhursanga or Šala.

The Semitic weather god Hadda was revered in the 3rd millennium BC in northern Syria. His sanctuary was in Aleppo. In Mesopotamia, he was revered around the city Karkar a blessing donor. For the Sumerians, Akkadians and in Babylonia it was called işkur. In the south of Mesopotamia were more his destructive abilities such as storms, floods and droughts in the foreground. This was mainly because he, işkur not " required " as a weather god in the south, where one operation is not rain-fed agriculture, but irrigated agriculture. Adad's symbolic animal, the bull, his attribute was a flash - either in one hand or alone. In Ugarit, he was also presented with helmet and two bull's horns.

In Ugaritic, Phoenician space of the weather god Baal was often simply so called Lord. The Hurrians was the weather god " Teššup " and stood at the head of the pantheon. He was married to Hebat, his son was a native of Kizzuwatna deity Šarruma. Teššups most important place of worship was Halab. There was the high point of his cult in the 2nd millennium BC, in the 1st millennium BC, however, a worship can hardly be detected. Was also among the Hittites Tarhunna, as the name of the Weather God probably was there, at the head of the pantheon. In the Luwian language, he was called " Tarhunt " at the Urartians Teišeba.

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