The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
(in Syria, Hadad) Babylonian god of weather and rain; the name is usually written with the cuneiform character for ‘wind’. He was thought of as son of the supreme god → An. His epithets ‘Dyke-warden of Heaven’ and ‘Lord of Abundance’ identify him as the beneficent giver.
If he withholds the rains, drought and famine ensue. His symbolical animal was the bull, his sign was a cluster of lightning flashes. An ancient hymn describes how heaven and earth rise before the god, who is also called Ramman (=thunder). The illustration (a seal motif) shows him in a robe adorned with astral signs and with a tall hat decorated on top with feathers; in his hand he holds the pincer-shaped bolts of lightning.
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