Editing Hadad (section)

==Sanchuniathon==
In [[Sanchuniathon]]'s account Hadad is once called Adodos, but is mostly named Demarûs. This is a puzzling form, probably from  Ugaritic {{Transliteration|uga|dmrn}}, which appears in parallelism with Hadad,<ref name="Oldenburg">{{cite book|author=Oldenburg, Ulf|title=The conflict between El and Baʿal in Canaanite religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hM8UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA59|access-date=7 April 2013|publisher=Brill Archive|pages=59–|id=GGKEY:NN7C21Q6FFA}}</ref> or possibly a Greek corruption of ''Hadad Ramān''. Sanchuniathon's Hadad is son of Sky by a concubine who is then given to the god [[Dagon]] while she is pregnant by Sky. This appears to be an attempt to combine two accounts of Hadad's parentage, one of which is the Ugaritic tradition that Hadad was son of Dagon.{{sfn|Schwemer|2007|p=156}} The cognate Akkadian god Adad is also often called the son of [[An (god)|Anu]] ("Sky"). The corresponding Hittite god [[Teshub]] is likewise son of Anu (after a fashion).

In Sanchuniathon's account, it is Sky who first fights against [[Pontus (mythology)|Pontus]] ("Sea"). Then Sky allies himself with Hadad. Hadad takes over the conflict but is defeated, at which point unfortunately no more is said of this matter. Sanchuniathion agrees with Ugaritic tradition in making Muth, the Ugaritic Mot, whom he also calls "Death", the son of El.