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Hadad

Also known as Haddu, Adad

Hadad was the storm and weather god of the ancient Semitic peoples of Syria and Mesopotamia, known in Akkadian as Adad. Attested as Hadda in the archives of Ebla in the 3rd millennium BCE, he was worshipped at Aleppo and across the Levant, where he was later identified with Baal. His symbols were the bull and the thunderbolt.

Hadad
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Assyrian EmpireFoundationBabylonian EmpireFoundation, DeclineMariMilitary, Impact, SummaryUnited Kingdom of IsraelDecline

Mentioned in 3 state histories

EblaYamhadZamua

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Hadad. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hadad
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