Lahar
deity earth Mesopotamian single tradition · 2
Lahar was a deity equated with Aya in a single Middle Babylonian period god list, explained as 'Aya as the goddess of caring for things.' Lahar was consistently regarded as male otherwise and was associated with herding sheep.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Aya
Mentioned by
- Shamash
- Utu
- Šimige
- Ishum
- Ningal
- Ea
- Suen
- Mamu
- Mamud
- Kittum
- Šapšu
- Eyan
- Kothar-wa-Khasis
- Ištar
- Nergal
- Bau
and 7 more
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“A single god list dated to the Middle Babylonian period or later equates Lahar with Aya and explains that the former should be understood as 'Aya as the goddess of caring for things'”
#15780 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Ningishzida is mentioned in a similar context alongside many other deities, such as Lisin, Gukishbanda, Kulla, Lahar and Ninshar.”
#39358 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5