dainu

Updated: May 13, 2025

So when a god is called simply Dainu, i.e., Judge, there can be little doubt that Shamash, the sun-god, is meant; a god, 'great mountain, is none other than Bel; and similarly, such names as 'merciful, 'hearer of prayer, 'conqueror of enemy' are manifestly titles belonging to certain well-known deities, and used much as among the Greeks the gods were often referred to by the traits, physical or moral, that distinguished them.

Morris Jastrow - The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria