Myths and legends of Babylonia & Assyria . owever,appear to have had any centreof worship in Babylonia, and was pro-bably a god of the Amorites, and be-coming popular with the Babylonians,was later admitted into their pan-theon. At Asshur in Assyria he wasworshipped along with Anu, withwhom he had a temple in building, which was excavated in1908, contains two shrines having butthe one entrance, and the date of itsfoundation is referred so far back 2400. There can be little doubtthat the partnership of Hadad withAnu was a late one. Perhaps it wason Assyrian and not Babylonian
Myths and legends of Babylonia & Assyria . owever,appear to have had any centreof worship in Babylonia, and was pro-bably a god of the Amorites, and be-coming popular with the Babylonians,was later admitted into their pan-theon. At Asshur in Assyria he wasworshipped along with Anu, withwhom he had a temple in building, which was excavated in1908, contains two shrines having butthe one entrance, and the date of itsfoundation is referred so far back 2400. There can be little doubtthat the partnership of Hadad withAnu was a late one. Perhaps it wason Assyrian and not Babylonian soilthat Hadad first entered from the alien world. In many of his characteristics Hadad closelyresembled En-lil. Like him he was designated thegreat mountain, and seems to have been conceivedof as almost a counterpart of the older god. It ispeculiar that while in Assyria and Babylonia Hadadhas many of the characteristics of a sun-god, in hisold home in Syria he possessed those of a thunder-god who dwelt among the mountains of northern188. Hadad or RimmonFrom ReligionsBelief and Prac-tice in Babyloniaand Assyria, byProf. (G. P. PutnamsSons.) HADAD, DADA, DAVID, AND DIDO Palestine and Syria and spoke in thunder and wieldedthe lightning. But even in Assyria the stormy char-acteristics of Hadad are not altogether cult in Babylonia is probably not mucholder than the days of Khammurabi, in whose timethe first inscriptional mention of him is made. Hisworship obtained a stronger hold in the times of theKassite dynasty, for we find many of its monarchsincorporating his name with their own and altogetheraffording him a prominent place. Hadad> Dada, David, and Dido In a curious and interesting passage in his HibbertLectures,^ Professor Sayce indicates resemblancesbetween the name Hadad, Dada, the abbreviatedform of the name of Abd-Hadad, who reigned atHierapolis in the fourth century. Queen Dido ofCarthage, and that of the Biblical David. Speakingof Hadad he s
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