Suinu
deity sky Eblaite single tradition · 1
Suinu is the name of the moon god of the Eblaites. His name is a cognate of Akkadian Sin, it is presumed that his cult developed locally and was not introduced from Mesopotamia. His cult center was apparently NI-ra-arki, a city located close to Ebla.
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Historical notes
- Attested in Eblaite texts.
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Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“The Eblaites instead referred to their moon god as Suinu, similar as their contemporaries in Kish, and in addition to phonetic writing Zu-i-nu adopted the Mesopotamian convention of using dEN.ZU to represent the name of the moon deity in cuneiform. While Suinu's name is a cognate of Akkadian Sin, it is presumed that his cult developed locally and was not introduced from Mesopotamia.”
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