Shullat and Hanish
Shullat (Šûllat) and Hanish (Ḫaniš) were a pair of Mesopotamian gods. They were usually treated as inseparable, and appear together in various works of literature. Their character was regarded as warlike and destructive, and they were associated with the weather. Names Multiple syllabic spellings of the name Shullat are attested in cuneiform texts, including dśu-ul-la-at, dšu-il-la-at, dšu-ul-la-at and dsu-ul-ut. The spelling of Hanish's name was consistently dḫa-ni-iš. Shullat's name was sometimes written logographically as dPA and Hanish's as dLUGAL. Ignace Gelb proposed that their names were derived from the Akkadian words šullatum, "despoilment," and ḫanīšum, "submission," but Dietz-Otto Edzard and Wilfred G. Lambert note that while it is certain that both were derived from a Semitic language, their precise meaning is unknown, and it cannot be ruled out that speculative etymologies were already present in ancient scholarship. Daniel Schwemer in a more recent study concludes that no fully plausible etymology has yet been proposed for either name. Character In most known sources Shullat and Hanish appear as a pair. Douglas Frayne goes as far as proposing they should be understood as a single deity with a compound name, similar to Ugaritic Kothar-wa-Khasis. However, while references to them in an inscription