Simige

Šimige with the winged sun over his head and a crook in hand. The moon god Kušuḫ walks in front of him .

Šimige (in Ugarit : ṯmg ), also called the sun god of the sky , is the Hurrian sun god. It has been used since the early 14th century BC. Adored also by the Hittites . In the Hittite rock shrine Yazılıkaya he is one of the main gods.

Essence

Šimige was strongly assimilated to the Mesopotamian sun god Šamaš of Sippar and took over from this Aya Ikaltu as his wife, whereby the nickname Ikaltu or Nikaltu reflects the misunderstood Akkadian word kallātu "bride". The two viziers Bunene and Mišaru were taken; another vizier is Lipparu.

Šimige drives a cart drawn by four horses. Bunene and Mišaru accompany him on both sides, as well as the two personifications “respect” and “awe”.

Children are attributed to the Šimige. This is what a Hurrian incantation from Mari names the seven daughters of Šimige and in a fragmentary text, his sons are named who did evil. The Hittite Ilaliyanteš can also appear in his retinue.

See also

• Sun goddess of Arinna
• Sun goddess of the earth
• Tiwaz

literature

• Volkert Haas : History of the Hittite religion (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . Sect. 1 The Nahe and the Middle East. Vol. 15). Brill, Leiden et al. 1994, ISBN 978-9-004-09799-5 .