Amurru

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Amurru
This page is about the deity Amurru. For the people that worshipped this deity, see Amorite Amurru (or Martu) are names given in Akkadian and Sumerian texts to the god of the Amorite/Amurru people, often forming part of personal names. He is sometimes called Ilu Amurru (DINGIR DMAR.TU).This god Amurru/Martu is sometimes described as a 'shepherd', and as a son of the sky-god Anu. He is sometimes called bêlu šadī or bêl šadê, 'lord of the mountain'; dúr-hur-sag-gá sikil-a-ke, 'He who dwells on the pure mountain'; and kur-za-gan ti-[la], 'who inhabits the shining mountain'. In Cappadocian Zinčirli inscriptions he is called ì-li a-bi-a, 'the god of my father'.
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Amurru
[Mesopotamian] An Akkadian mountain god and a god of nomads. He is equated with the Sumerian god Martu. His consort is Beletseri.


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