Hadad

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Hadad
God of Weather, Hurricanes, Storms, Thunder and Rain
Assyrian soldiers carrying a statue of Adad
Abode	Heaven
Symbol	Thunderbolt, bull, lion
Genealogy
Parents	Most common tradition:Sin and Ningal, or Dagon
Siblings	Kishar, Inanna
Consort	Shala, Medimsha
Children	Gibil or Girra
Equivalents
Canaanite	Baal
Greek	Zeus
Roman	Jupiter
Egyptian	Horus
Hurrian	Teshub

Hadad (Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎄, romanized: Haddu), Haddad, Adad (Akkadian: 𒀭𒅎 ^DIM, pronounced as Adād), or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm and rain god in the Canaanite and ancient Mesopotamian religions. He was attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE.^[1][2] From the Levant, Hadad was introduced to Mesopotamia by the Amorites, where he became known as the Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) god Adad.^[3][4][5][6] Adad and Iškur are usually written with the logogram 𒀭𒅎 ^dIM^[7]—the same symbol used for the Hurrian god Teshub.^[8] Hadad was also called Rimon/Rimmon, Pidar, Rapiu, Baal-Zephon,^[9] or often simply Baʿal (Lord), but this title was also used for other gods. The bull was the symbolic animal of Hadad. He appeared bearded,^[10][11] often holding a club and thunderbolt and wearing a bull-horned headdress.^[12][13] Hadad was equated with the Greek god Zeus, the Roman god Jupiter (Jupiter Dolichenus), as well as the Babylonian Bel.^{[citation needed]}

The Baal Cycle or Epic of Baal is a collection of stories about the Canaanite Baal, also referred to as Hadad. It was composed between 1400 and 1200 B.C. and rediscovered in the excavation of Ugarit, an ancient city in modern-day Syria.

The storm god Adad and the sun god Shamash jointly became the patron gods of oracles and divination in Mesopotamia.