Shahar (god)

Sahar ( Ugaritic SHR, Arabic Shachar, Sahr, Shahr; Aramaic Sahra, Sahr ( a) and minor Il- Teri, Ilteri; Judeo -Aramaic Sehara; neubabylonisch Seri Sera and secondary design Ilteri, Ilteru ) on the one hand, the West Semitic name of the equivalent Akkadian moon-god Sin; the other hand, embodies Sahar in the Ugaritic religion the Morning Star and the Dawn. His son is Helel.

Etymology

The anlautendende consonant of the Aramaic form " Sahr ( a) " is still occupied in older traditions with " ä ". Only later the Syrian case " Sahra " ( "moon " ) is adopted. " Sahr (a )" was written in a further addition to form wedge- writing by "ser " and " Ter " usually with the prefix "il " ("God " ) as " Il- Ter ( i) ".

The name server is derived from the common in Nairab name D " Sahr - idri " ( "se -e -ri -id- ri ", " DXXX - he -id- ri ") and the salutation of the moon god by the Babylonian king Nabonidus from that used for the worship of the moon Nairab - form " Il- Ter ( i) ". The influences on the names of letters of the Ugaritic religion regards the designation Šéhrum or Šahrum ( Morgenstern ) is accepted by the science of language.

Using the name

Sahar as a moon god

From the descriptions of the Babylonierkönigs Nabonidus during his ten -year stay in the oasis the mythological letters from the name Teher and Ter -il in the form of Il- Teri (God of the Moon / Lord of the Moon) was confirmed.

The Marduk priesthood used the naming of Il- Teri as equating the Moon-god Sin, who was charged by Nabonidus to his chief god. In stanza poem of Nabonidus who is accused of Babylonierkönig to have prayed to the Moon God Aramaic Il- Teri, who gave him the secrets of divine wisdom come in a revelation and Nabu - na'id thus made ​​wiser than Adapa.

Sahar as a deity of the dawn

In the Ugaritic religion Sahar is considered subsidiary of deity El. In a myth fragment is reported: " El surprised at a fountain goddesses asera and Šapsu and impregnated her then. " From which union the divine pair Sahar as dawn and Salim emerged as the dusk. Both were worshiped as friendly deities, who acted as hybrid.

Naming in the presence

Based on the etymology of the Arabic name Sachar, Sahar is used as a female first name meant literally: The Ruling / queen / mistress from early evening until midnight.