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| | The Kingdom of Urartu, by Rafi Issagholian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | In the temples dedicated to Haldi there is clear evidence of a cult of weapons: swords, spears, bows and arrows were laid up in the temples, their walls were hung with shields, and the temple itself was sometimes known as the 'house of weapons.' |
 | | The second place in the Urartian pantheon was occupied by Teisheba, the god of storms and thunder, who was designated by the Assyrian ideogram for the god Adad. |
 | | He was homonymous with the Hurrian god Teshub, who was widely worshipped in Asia Minor, and was represented in the form of a man standing on a bull, often holding a handful of thunderbolts. |
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