Editing Sin (mythology) (section)

===Other lunar deities===
[[File:Yazilikaya Sonnengott des Himmels.jpg|thumb|A relief of Kušuḫ (right), the Hurrian moon god, from [[Yazılıkaya]]]]
The [[Hurrian religion|Hurrian]] moon god, variously known as [[Kušuḫ]], Umbu or Ušu,{{sfn|Krebernik|1997|p=364}} was identified with Sin and his name was sometimes written logographically as <sup>d</sup>EN.ZU or <sup>d</sup>30.{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=10}} It is possible that his character was influenced by exposure to Mesopotamian culture and the image of the moon god in it in particular.{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=11}}

Equivalence between Sin and [[Yarikh]] is documented in an [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]-[[Amorite language|Amorite]] [[bilingual]] [[Lexical lists|lexical list]]{{sfn|George|Krebernik|2022|p=118}} presumed to originate in [[lower Mesopotamia]] and dated to the [[Old Babylonian period]].{{sfn|George|Krebernik|2022|pp=113-114}} The two of them are also equated in an [[Ugaritic]] god list.{{sfn|Wyatt|2007|p=74}} The name of Yarikh (Yariḫ) and its variants are cognate with terms referring both to the moon and to month as a measure of time in multiple [[Semitic languages]], including both Amorite and Ugaritic.{{sfn|Krebernik|1997|p=364}} While neither the names Nanna nor Sin share such a linguistic affinity, the respective Sumerian (''itud'') and Akkadian (''warḫum'') words for moon and month are likewise the same.{{sfn|Krebernik|1997|p=360}} As noted by Nick Wyatt, [[Nikkal]], the counterpart of [[Ningal]] regarded as the wife of Yarikh in [[Ugarit]], likely reached the coastal city via a [[Hurrians|Hurrian]] intermediary, and it is possible that the myth describing their marriage was based on a Mesopotamian or Hurrian original, focused on either Sin or Kušuḫ.{{sfn|Wyatt|2007|pp=114-115}} However, Steve A. Wiggins states that despite the connection between Sin and Yarikh the latter shows a number of traits distinct from his counterpart, for example literary texts at times compare him to a dog, an animal not associated with the Mesopotamian moon god.{{sfn|Wiggins|1998|pp=776-777}}

[[File:Turkey-1598 (2216641612).jpg|thumb|A relief depicting the offering of a libation to the Anatolian moon god Arma (right).]]
In [[Hittites|Hittite]] and [[Luwians|Luwian]] sources the logographic writings <sup>d</sup>30  and <sup>d</sup>EN.ZU were used to render the name of the Anatolian moon god [[Arma (deity)|Arma]].{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=110}} As noted by {{ill|Piotr Taracha|de}}, while <sup>d</sup>30 was also used to represent the name of the [[Hattians|Hattian]] moon god [[Kašku]] in the corresponding version of the myth ''The Moon that Fell from Heaven'', it is improbable that it designates him in cultic texts, as he was a deity of little relevance in Hattian and [[Hittite mythology and religion|Hittite religion]].{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=43}}

In [[Emar]], <sup>d</sup>30 might have been used as a logogram to represent the name of the local god [[Saggar (god)|Saggar]], who in addition to fulfilling a lunar role was also the divine personification of the [[Sinjar Mountains]].{{sfn|Krebernik|1997|pp=363-364}} Both he and Sin (Suinu) were worshiped in [[Ebla]] in the third millennium BCE, possibly with each representing a different [[lunar phase]].{{sfn|Archi|2015|p=34}} It has been suggested that the logogram <sup>d</sup>EN.ZU designated Saggar in this city, but according to Alfonso Archi this is unlikely.{{sfn|Archi|2019|p=42}} Lunar character is sometimes also proposed for a further Eblaite deity, [[Hadabal]] (<sup>d</sup>NI-''da''-KUL), though Archi similarly disagrees with this view.{{sfn|Archi|2015|p=600}} However, he does accept the possibility that the theophoric name of a king of Ibubu mentioned in an Eblaite text, ''Li-im''-<sup>d</sup>EN.ZU, a different deity than Sin was meant.{{sfn|Archi|2019|p=42}}

The logogram <sup>d</sup>30 was also used to render the name of the [[Elam]]ite moon deity, possibly to be identified with [[Napir]], though {{ill|Manfred Krebernik|de}} notes that in one case the name Nannar appears to be attested in Elamite contex,{{sfn|Krebernik|1997|p=364}} specifically in an inscription of [[Shilhak-Inshushinak]].{{sfn|Krebernik|1997|p=360}}

A bilingual Akkadian-[[Kassite language|Kassite]] lexical list indicates that the [[Kassite deities|Kassite deity]] regarded as the counterpart of Sin was Ši-ḪU (reading of the second sign uncertain), well attested as an element of [[theophoric name]]s, though he was more commonly equated with [[Marduk]] in similar sources.{{sfn|Krebernik|1997|p=364}}