Hadabal
Hadabal is an Eblaite god assumed to belong to a religious and linguistic substrate. A lunar character has been proposed for Hadabal. Larugadu, originally one of the centers of his cult, was later associated with Yarikh.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – -2200
- Historical notes
- Attested in texts from Ebla in the third millennium BCE.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Suinu, Šanugaru, Sin-Amurrum, Re’i-Malik, Ennai, Resheph of gunum, Resheph of Tunip, Resheph of the palace, Resheph of Adanni, Kura, Hadda of Aleppo, Barama, Shalash bitinḫi, Goddess of the Night, ITU, Hadad, Sin, Yarikh, Resheph, Dagan, Hadda, Išḫara, Adamma, Šaggar, Ḫepat, Ashtart, Hutena, Hutellura, Allani, Šauška, Ninatta, Kulitta, Kubaba, Hašuntarḫi, Nupatik, Aštabi, Pinikir, Ištar
Mentioned by
- ITU
- Hadad
- Sin
- Yarikh
- Resheph
- Dagan
- Hadda
- Išḫara
- Adamma
- Šaggar
- Ḫepat
- Ashtart
- Hutena
- Hutellura
- Allani
- Šauška
and 8 more
Sources
Source passages
“In addition to Saggar, lunar character has also been proposed for another Eblaite god assumed to belong to such a substrate, Hadabal, based on the fact that Larugadu, originally one of the centers of his cult, was later associated with Yarikh.”
#19418 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Due to Yarikh's association with Larugardu, it has additionally been argued that the god Hadabal (dNI.DA.KUL), who was worshiped there in the third millennium BCE, had lunar character, but this conclusion is not universally accepted.”
#19557 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Alfonso Archi notes that an association with an otherwise insignificant city or cities is a characteristic shared by him with a number of the other major deities of Ebla, namely Dagan (from Tuttul), Hadda (from Halab) and Hadabal (from Hamadu, Larugadu and Luban), and that it can be assumed in the third millennium BCE none of them owed their popularity to the political influence of their cult centers.”
#24492 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“While some of the Eblaite deities ceased to be worshiped after the destruction of the city, for example Kura, Barama and Hadabal, others, like Adamma, as well as Aštabi and Saggar, despite acquiring no major role in religion of the Amorites”
#36809 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001