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Humban

deity sky Elamite single tradition · 3

Humban is an Elamite god. It has been argued that Humbaba was derived from Humban, but according to Andrew R. George this proposal is not plausible in the light of available evidence.

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co occurs with
Napirisha, Inshushinak, Lagamal, Adad, Shala, Kiririsha, Manzat, Nahhunte, Pinikir, Nannar, Nah, Humbaba, Ḫumḫum, Marduk, Sin

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wikipedia (3)
  1. Humbaba
  2. Inshushinak
  3. Nahhunte

Source passages

“It has also been argued that Humbaba was derived from the Elamite god Humban, but according to Andrew R. George this proposal is not plausible in the light of available evidence, and the most recent attempt at justifying this connection, undertaken by John Hansman in the 1970s, rests on "unsafe historical conclusions".”

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“further east Humban and Napirisha were more commonly recognized as deities of comparable status instead. An inscription of Shilhak-Inshushinak refers to Inshushinak as the "greatest of gods" (or "great among the gods"; rišar nappapir), though the same epithet is also applied to Humban”

#11775 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“An inscription of Shilhak-Inshushinak mentions Nahhunte, labeled as "lord who protects," after Inshushinak, Kiririsha, Humban and Nannar, the last of these deities being a name of the Elamite moon god derived from Mesopotamian Nanna.”

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