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Ammarik, as well as an otherwise unknown deity named Dunnān, appear in an Eblaite incantation imploring the weather god Hadda to destroy evil with hail. Ammarik is specifically asked to help Hadda destroy snakes. Daniel Schwemer notes that if the common assumption about Ammarik's character is
137:, for example a Hittite text describing the appearance of various deities mentions that the cult statue of the mountain god Kuwarri was accompanied by an iron eagle, while an eagle made out of ivory was an attribute of Iškiša. Documentation pertaining to the 157:. A single instance of a mace being offered to him is also known. He was one of the gods associated with figurines of silver human-faced bulls according to the Eblaite texts, the other ones being 197:
as other similar examples. He assumes that they were reduced to the status of deities of at best local significance, and as a result were easily incorporated into the religion of the
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Ammarik was most likely a deified mountain in origin. It is possible that the corresponding landmark is located to the northwest of Ebla, in the proximity of
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Alfonso Archi proposes that after the fall of Ebla Ammarik was among the deities who did not retain their former position in the religion of the
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In a ritual text from Ammarik occurs next to Adarwan, most likely also a deified mountain. Alfonso Archi considers him to be a god, but
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correct, this might be the oldest attestation of an association between weather gods and mountains in the entire region.
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In later periods, the mountain was apparently seen as the residence of a weather deity, as evidenced by the annals of
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brought a statue of a storm god named Armaruk in Hittite from conquered Hurrian city
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when they arrived in the same area a few centuries later. Ammarik is attested in
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festival mentions an eagle who sat on the shoulder of the mountain god
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in the third millennium BCE. He was most likely a deified mountain.
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in Ebla, two golden bracelets were annually offered to Ammarik and
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After the fall of Ebla, he was incorporated into the
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Index

Ebla
pantheon
Hurrians
Church of Saint Simeon Stylites
Hittite
Mukish
Mount Simeon
Carchemish
determinative
Ḫattušili I
Volkert Haas
numen
Saggar
Syria
Anatolia
Manuzi
Aštabi
Hadda
Resheph
Hadabal
Amorites
Syria
Šanugaru
Halabatu
Hurrians
Hurrian
Hattusa
Ḫattušili I
Haššuwa

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