Hadad … was the storm- and rain-god in the Canaanite and ancient Mesopotamian religions.
Hadad is that name.
Hadad is also the name of kings and of the people who served them.
The best-known stories about Hadad come from Ugarit, a city on the coast of modern Syria.
In it Hadad is called Baal, and the stories are about him.
In the Ugarit texts Hadad keeps the rain coming and the crops growing.
In religious texts, Ba‘al/Hadad is the lord of the sky who governs rain and crops, master of fertility and protector of life and growth.
The first tablets tell how Hadad beats Yamm, the Sea.
In the translation by the Good Works Library, the goddess Ashtoreth stops Hadad when he keeps hitting the beaten Sea:
Wikipedia adds that the Ugaritic tradition made Hadad a son of Dagon, while the usual Mesopotamian tradition makes him a son of Anu and Uraš.
The Mount Zaphon page says: "It is the sacred peak of Baal (Hadad).
He writes: "Baal is also called the ‘knight of the clouds’, an epithet which in the Bible is also applied to Yahweh." Biglino does not name Hadad in that article.
Amorites carried Hadad east.
From the Levant, Hadad was introduced to Mesopotamia by the Amorites
Hadad's home city was Aleppo.
Wikipedia's page on its citadel says the city "became the capital of Yamhad and was known as the "City of Hadad"".
A king of Yamhad called himself "beloved of Hadad".
A stele of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I calls Hadad "the god of Aleppo".
Wikipedia says "Later Aramean kings of Damascus seem to have habitually assumed the title of Ben-Hadad (son of Hadad)".
A colossal statue of Hadad from Gerdshin, near Sam'al, dates to 775 BCE and is in the Pergamon Museum.
It names Hadad as the god of the Arameans and pairs him with Rimmon.
Wikipedia reports that many scholars formerly took Rammanu for a separate Akkadian god, and that he was later identified with Hadad.
The Bible never names Hadad as a god.
A later Ben-Hadad besieged Samaria:
The name means "son of Hadad".
Others suspected that Hadad-rimmon was a dying and rising god, like Adonis or Tammuz.
Wikipedia also records that John Day thinks Jezebel's Baal, whom Elijah fought, "was possibly Baʿal Shamem (Lord of the Heavens), a title most often applied to Hadad".
If Day is right, Elijah on Mount Carmel was facing Hadad's own cult.
In his article he says "Elijah does not say that Baal does not exist." I think that fits a Hadad cult too, because a rival is only a rival if he is real.
One more possible trace of Hadad is in Isaiah 66:17, which the Hierarchy of YHWH page covers.
Ben-Hadad also shows up in my notes on Nimrod.
It lists scholars who tried to match Nimrod with historical figures, including "Aramaean rulers like Ben-Hadad".
Many gods were called Baal, and Hadad was one of them.
Wikipedia says Hadad was often called simply Baal, "however, the latter title was also used for other gods".
In many verses it can mean Hadad.
In their capital Avaris they worshipped him as "Set of Avaris", Wikipedia says, and so Hadad became tied to Seth.
The channeled and esoteric sources below do not use the name Hadad.
This is a different line from the one Wikipedia draws, where Baal is Hadad's title.
Kab's reading would make the Ugaritic storm god Enlil, not Hadad.
Oahspe does not name Hadad either.
My summary of his 1972 book lists ever-burning lamps from the ancient world, and one entry reads "Luminous stones in the temple of Hadad at Baalbek".
It is the only line on my site that names a temple of Hadad at Baalbek.
Hadad shows how many names the Bible's world gave one kind of power.
My pages on Elohim and The Gods in the Bible follow that trail, and the second one lists Hadad under his Aramean name, Rimmon.
Among them are Baal, Moloch, Nebo, Hadad, the Queen of Heaven (Ishtar or Astarte) and Kaiwan, a star god linked to Saturn.
Early Identity:Baal's precursor, known as Hadad (also Haddu or Rammanu in Akkadian), was initially a minor storm deity in Mesopotamian mythology.
Baal's Transformation:By 1800–1500 BCE, Hadad had evolved into Baal-Hadad, eventually known simply as Baal ("Lord"), signifying his dominance over nature and his emergence as a kingly god.
Hadad: The Arameans, including the kingdom of Aram-Damascus, primarily worshipped Hadad, a storm and weather god similar to Baal.
Rimmon: This deity was often equated with Hadad and represented similar attributes as a weather god, invoked for agricultural fertility and favorable climate.
It is the sacred peak of Baal (Hadad).
Nimrod as a Historical Figure: The third approach seeks to identify Nimrod with historical figures, including Sargon of Akkad, the first of Assyria, or even Egyptian pharaohs like Nemrutash or Aramaean rulers like Ben-Hadad.
Hadad: Ben-Hadad as one of the kings scholars matched with Nimrod.
There were various regional variations of Baal, and the name Baal was often combined with other titles and local attributes, such as Baal Hadad (the storm god in Mesopotamia), Baal Zephon (associated with a specific mountain), and Baal Peor (a Moabite deity).
Hadad (also spelled Adad, Haddad, or Haddu) is primarily a personal name in ancient Near Eastern contexts.
Hadad (Ugaritic: Haddu) is the storm and rain god in Canaanite religion.
I wrote a full page on this god: Hadad, the Storm God Who Rode the Clouds.
Baal’s precursor, known as Hadad (also Haddu or Rammanu in Akkadian), was initially a minor storm deity in Mesopotamian mythology.
Another deity worth mentioning is Adad (also known as Hadad or Ishkur in Sumerian mythology), who was specifically the god of storms and thunder.