Yarikh
Yarikh is a local moon god.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Hurrian documents from Ugarit.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Puḫru ‘Ilīma, ‘Uṯḫatu, Kab, Iya, Śahr, Hadabal, Suinu, Šanugaru, Sin-Amurrum, Nineigara, Ninurima, Nimintabba, hll, Hulelu, Kotharat, Ḫiriḫibi, ybrdmy, Ḫanat, Arsay, Kinnaru, Hauron, Tunnanu, Horon, Attapar, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Gaṯarāma, Gašaru, Kumarbi, Arma, Teššub, Kašku, Inanna, Hadad, Utu, Ningal, Ningublaga, Numushda, Alammuš, Athirat, Shapash, Kothar, Šaggar, Ashtart, Šimige, Nupatik, Aštabi, Mot, Anat, Išḫara, El, Shapshu, Dagan, Shalim, Shahar, Yam, ʿAṯtar, Erra, Lugalirra
- syncretized with
- Sin
- consort of
- Nikkal
- manifested by
- yrḫ kṯy
- served by
- Talish
Mentioned by
- Kumarbi
- Arma
- Teššub
- Kašku
- Inanna
- Hadad
- Utu
- Ningal
- Ningublaga
- Numushda
- Alammuš
- Athirat
- Shapash
- Kothar
- Šaggar
- Ashtart
and 19 more
Sources
Source passages
“A single ritual text indicates that he could be worshiped side by side with local moon god Yarikh, which is one of the examples of the well attested phenomenon involving combining Ugaritic and Hurrian elements in the religious practice of this city.”
#19299 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“He was also associated with other lunar gods, such as Hurrian Kušuḫ or Ugaritic Yarikh.”
#19484 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Emar, the name of the moon god was represented by the logogram d30. It is not certain if he can be identified as Yarikh. According to Brian B. Schmidt the moon god worshiped in Emar was Sin. However, it is not impossible that more than one deity of such character was present in the local pantheon, and Gary Beckman lists the West Semitic reading as one of the four”
#19594 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In the same source she is also the recipient of a bull and a ram as a peace offering, in this passage appearing alongside Ilib, two Baals (of Ugarit and of Aleppo), Yarikh, Pidray and Dadmiš.”
#23324 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The deities invoked are Baal, Dagan, Anat (paired with Ashtart), Yarikh, Resheph, Ashtart (on her own), Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Kothar-wa-Khasis and the pair Shahar and Shalim, all of them invoked from their cult centers, some of them located close to Ugarit (Mount Saphon), other on Crete, in Anatolia (Bibitta) or Upper Mesopotamia (Tuttul, Mari).”
#24089 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001