Hadad
1. Hadad (Western Semitic, Syrian and Phoenician) = Zeus
   1. Adad (Babylonian-Akkadian), 1900b-200b, Weather god, sacred marriage, giver of life in fields and storm god, animal is bull =Rammanm
      1. Ishkur (Sumerian) pre3550b.c.- 1750b.c., Storm god, perceived as bull or lion, roar is thunder, warrior in chariot, Pastoralist god

• Amun (Egyptian), pre-dynasitc (2400bc) - 400ad, Sun god, lord of sky, king of world. Blue pharaoh, ram with curved horns. Unseen but everywhere, ffrom 16thcent on as manifestation of Ra -> king of the gods. Also father of each pharaorh. At Thebes snake deity w connotation of immortality and rebirth. Rival of Aten.
• Anubis (Egyptian) pre-dynastic (2700bc) - 400ad, often a sitting dog or jackal w magic collar, less often jackal headed human, associated with mortuary rites. Greco-Roman becomes cosmic deity.
• Aphrodite, 1300bc-400ad, from older asiatic models, goddess of sexual love, 2 possible birth stories, derived from phoencain or mesopotamian goddess, cult at cyprus. sometime androgynous and bearded (also artemis). Also goddess of war and victory from mesopotamia. Also cultic prostitues at Corinth.
  1. Mesopotamian and Semitic models
• Apollo
  1. Apollo (Greek), 1300bc-400ad, epitomizes youthful masculinty, derived from asia minor hittite or minonan crete, a distant rather than approcable god, priamry center at delphi, temple at dodona secondary to artemis's, healing, psdtilance, purification rites and oracles, god of hunters with bow, pictured with lions. Patron of poets. subject to laws of morality for killing python and cyclopes. See Reshep.
     1. Reshep (Western Semitic: Caananite and Phoencian) war and plague, youthful warlike, introduced to egypt, guardian diety of battle for many pharaohs, gazelle associated, shoot firebrands w bow, lessen plagues, Cyprus.
        1. Nergal (Sumarian and Babylonian-Akkadin), 3500bc -200bc, god of war and sudden death, consort of underwolrd queen, plague god, bearded ith double edged mace emerging from ground. Identified w Hercules.
  2. Apollo Belenus 100-200ad, assoc w horses (Celtic sun symbols),
     1. Belenus (Celtic), prehistoric-400ad or later, pastoral god of light, sun and healing, namesake of Beltane
  3. Mabon (Welsh), son of earth mother, god of hunters and fishermen, syncretized w apollo