Martu, Lord of the Mountain The Thunderer Culture Mesopotamian Amorite/A...

Martu, Lord of the Mountain Also Amurru, The Thunderer Culture Mesopotamian Amorite/Amurru The Parton god of the city of Ninab. bêlu šadī or bêl šadê, Bêl Šadê could also have become the fertility-god 'Ba'al', possibly adopted by the Canaanites, a rival and enemy of the Hebrew God YHWH, and famously combatted by the Hebrew prophet Elijah. Amurru also has storm-god features. Like Adad, Amurru bears the epithet 'thunderer', and he is even called 'hurler of the thunderbolt' . Yet his iconography is distinct from that of Adad, and he sometimes appears alongside Adad with a baton of power or throwstick, while Adad bears a conventional thunderbolt.