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The Hurrian pantheon consisted of gods of varied backgrounds, some of them natively Hurrian, while others adopted from other pantheons, [1] [2] for example Eblaite [3] and Mesopotamian. [4] Like the other inhabitants of the Ancient Near East , Hurrians regarded their gods as anthropomorphic. [ 5 ]
Hurrian primeval deities were regarded as an early generation of gods in Hurrian mythology. A variety of Hurrian, Hittite and Akkadian labels could be used to refer to them. They were believed to inhabit the underworld, where they were seemingly confined by Teshub. Individual texts contain a variety of different listings of primeval deities ...
Foundation tablet. Dedication to God Nergal by Hurrian king Atalshen, king of Urkish and Nawar, Habur Bassin, circa 2000 BC. Louvre Museum AO 5678. "Of Nergal the lord of Hawalum, Atal-shen, the caring shepherd, the king of Urkesh and Nawar, the son of Sadar-mat the king, is the builder of the temple of Nergal, the one who overcomes opposition.
Hurrian divine names are often simple and epithet-like, for example Allani means "the lady," Šauška - "the great," and Nabarbi - "she of Nawar." [58] The word referring to gods was eni, [59] plural enna. [34] As in other cultures of the Ancient Near East, Hurrian gods were imagined as anthropomorphic. [60]
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As elsewhere in Hurrian mythology, he is portrayed as the king of the gods and as the lord of Kumme. [96] The Song of Release is known from multiple fragments of bilingual editions coupling the Hurrian original with a Hittite translation, prepared by scribes from Hattusa around 1400 BCE. [347]
Hamurnu alone appears in a copy of the god list Anšar = Anum, where he is also explained as a name of Anu. [6] However, Anu was incorporated into Hurrian tradition under his own name. [20] The correspondence between the Hurrian words eše and hawurni and Mesopotamian deities d ḫa-mur-nim and d ḫa-a-a-šum has been established by Wilfred G ...
Šimige was the Hurrian sun god.Known sources do not associate him with any specific location, but he is attested in documents from various settlements inhabited by the Hurrians, from Kizzuwatnean cities in modern Turkey, through Ugarit, Alalakh and Mari in Syria, to Nuzi, in antiquity a part of the kingdom of Arrapha in northeastern Iraq.