Simige is the Hurrian sun god, one of the great pan-Hurrian deities venerated across the Hurrian-speaking world of northern Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia in the Bronze Age. He is attested widely as an element in Hurrian personal names, a sign of his broad popular cult, and he appears in mythological and ritual texts alongside the weather god Teshub and the moon god Kusuh as one of the pantheon's principal luminary deities. Hurrian solar worship, including Simige's own cult, fed into Hittite state religion as the two cultures' pantheons merged in the second millennium BCE.
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Attestation
Era of Attestation Veneration TodayHistorically attested; no continuous cult 2 HistoricityNot a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1 Belief
TheologyPolytheistic: many gods 1 Function
Domain / Function Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
2. Hittite Myths, 2nd edition
Harry A. Hoffner Jr. (Gary M. Beckman, ed.), Society of Biblical Literature (Writings from the Ancient World), 1998Simige, Hurrian-Hittite corpusView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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