The state pantheon of the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu, centred on Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands from roughly the ninth to the sixth century BCE. Its clearest record is the Mher Kapisi inscription cut into the rock above Van, a royal sacrifice list naming and ranking the gods entitled to state offerings, headed by the triad Haldi, Teisheba and Shivini. The pantheon is known almost entirely through royal cuneiform inscriptions commissioned by the Urartian kings themselves rather than any surviving myth or narrative literature.
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Era of AttestationAttested from Urartian cuneiform inscriptions of the ninth to sixth centuries BCE, the kingdom centered on Lake Van, until the kingdom's fall in the early sixth century BCE. 1 Correspondences & Relations
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This source names The Pantheon directly: "the triad Haldi, Teisheba and Shivini. The pantheon is known almost entirely through royal cuneiform inscriptions commissioned by the Urartian kings themselves rather than any surviving myth or..."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
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Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005Encyclopedia of Religion entry on Urartian religion as the basis for the pantheon overviewView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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