Kušuḫ
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Kušuḫ, also known under the name Umbu, was the god of the moon in Hurrian pantheon. He is attested in cuneiform texts from many sites, from Hattusa in modern Turkey, through Ugarit, Alalakh, Mari and
An ancient Anatolian depiction of the moon god Arma, displaying iconography patterned after Kušuḫ's. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.
Kušuḫ, followed by Šimige, as depicted in Yazılıkaya.
Nikkal
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Nikkal or Nikkal-wa-Ib was a goddess worshiped in various areas of the ancient Near East west of Mesopotamia. She was derived from the Mesopotamian goddess Ningal, and like her forerunner was regarded
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…compositions do not provide much information about his individual characteristics. It has also been proposed that the Ugaritic composition Marriage of Nikkal and Yarikh was based on a Hurrian myth about Kušuḫ, well attested as the husband of this goddess. Kušuḫ, usually written dKu-uš-uḫ in cuneiform, was…
Nikkal (second from the left) on the Yazılıkaya procession relief