The storm that can be asked and cannot be commanded
Warning
He is the flood as well as the rain
Resonance
Growers sailors those who live with weather
Symbols
The bullThe lightning forkThe thunderboltThe rain cloud
Mythology Summary
Ishkur is the Sumerian storm god, the Akkadian Adad and the West Semitic Hadad, the lord of rain, thunder and the bellowing wind, whose city was Karkar and whose consort was Shala. The Sumerian hymns and the Akkadian prayers praise him both as the rain that makes the grain grow and as the flood that takes the field, and his voice is the thunder. He is a distinct god from the West Semitic Baal-Hadad, though the two storm gods were identified in the first millennium.
Modern Practice
Ishkur is asked for rain and not for storm, and he is worked by growers, sailors and anyone whose life is spent with weather. The same god floods the field he feeds, and the entry does not pretend otherwise.