Adad

Storm god of rain, thunder and the destructive tempest.

Parentage

• parent: Anu

Domains

• storm rain
• thunder

Powers

• Loosing rain, thunder and flood or withholding them

Epithets

• bēl ḫegalli akkadian · bel hegalli · cultLord of abundance; the storm-god who brings the fertilizing rainsAdad hymns and royal inscriptions; cf. the Assyrian cult of Adad (secondary)
• rāḫiṣ akkadian · rahis · literaryThe devastator; Adad who floods and destroys with the tempestAtrahasis (the Flood); Gilgamesh XI (Adad's storm) (primary)

Relations

• sibling: EnkiFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Anu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: EnlilFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Anu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• equated with: HadadReciprocal of aramean_hadad.equated-with — Adad/Addu and Aramaic Hadad are the same Semitic storm-god name in eastern and western streams. Preserves thunder, bull, rain-giving; Mesopotamian Adad is more destructive-tempest, Hadad more rain-king.D. Schwemer, Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens (2001) (secondary)
• equated with: TeshubReciprocal of hurrian_teshub.equated-with — Teshub is written with Adad's dIM/dU logogram throughout cuneiform tradition — a systematic scribal identification. Preserves bull-and-thunder storm kingship; Adad lacks the Kumarbi birth and succession.D. Schwemer, Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens (2001) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Atra-ḫasīs, Tablet II (primary)