Šeri and Ḫurri

Šeri and Ḫurri were regarded as benevolent deities, and in a single text they are jointly referred to with the epithet ''šinurḫina'', "the two righteous ones".{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=471}} A [[Lexical lists|lexical list]] from [[Emar]] equates this term with the [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] word ''maštabba'', "twins", which was used to designate pairs of [[Apotropaic magic|apotropaic]] figures.{{sfn|Haas|2015|pp=471-472}} Šeri is also at times attested on his own as a deity capable of mediating between petitioners and his master, but no known sources assign any individual characteristics to Ḫurri.{{sfn|Schwemer|2008|pp=6-7}}

Šeri and Ḫurri were regarded as benevolent deities, and in a single text they are jointly referred to with the epithet ''šinurḫina'', "the two righteous ones".{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=471}} A [[Lexical lists|lexical list]] from [[Emar]] equates this term with the [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] word ''maštabba'', "twins", which was used to designate pairs of [[Apotropaic magic|apotropaic]] figures.{{sfn|Haas|2015|pp=471-472}} Šeri is also at times attested on his own as a deity capable of mediating between petitioners and his master, but no known sources assign any individual characteristics to Ḫurri.{{sfn|Schwemer|2008|pp=6-7}}

In known texts Šeri and Ḫurri are consistently described as [[theriomorphic]].{{sfn|Schwemer|2001|p=481}} They were regarded as the divine bulls of [[Teššub]], the Hurrian weather god.{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=73}} They were believed to pull his chariot.{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=108}} According to Alfonso Archi, the first references to two bulls drawing the chariot of a weather god come from texts from [[Ebla]], and it is possible Šeri and Ḫurri were only the Hurrian names of preexisting figures from the circle of [[Hadad|Hadda]] of [[Halab]] attested in this [[text corpus]].{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=12}} Depictions of a weather god in a chariot drawn by two bulls are well attested in art of both northern [[Syria]] and [[Anatolia]].{{sfn|Schwemer|2008|p=6}} In [[Yazılıkaya]], Šeri and Ḫurri might be depicted next to Teššub and his family ([[Ḫepat]], [[Šarruma]], [[Allanzu]] and Kunzišalli),{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=94}} though this conclusion is not unicersally accepted.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1992|p=178}} It is also sometimes argued that two bull-like figures from this site (reliefs 28 and 29) represent them, but due to their partially [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] appearance this is not regarded as a plausible interpretation.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1992|pp=178-179}}{{sfn|Schwemer|2001|p=481}} {{ill|Piotr Taracha|de}} instead labels them as “bull-men standing on a symbol of the Earth and supporting a symbol of Heaven”.{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=95}} Frans Wiggermann interprets these figures as an adaptation of Mesopotamian [[kusarikku]], and similarly concludes they are simply meant to support [[Earth and Heaven (Hurrian religion)|earth and heaven]].{{sfn|Wiggermann|1992|pp=178-179}} Possible depictions of Šeri and Ḫurri have also been identified on an [[orthostat]] relief from [[Malatya]] and on the [[golden bowl of Hasanlu]].{{sfn|Haas|1972|p=507}}

In known texts Šeri and Ḫurri are consistently described as [[theriomorphic]].{{sfn|Schwemer|2001|p=481}} They were regarded as the divine bulls of [[Teššub]], the Hurrian weather god.{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=73}} They were believed to pull his chariot.{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=108}} According to Alfonso Archi, the first references to two bulls drawing the chariot of a weather god come from texts from [[Ebla]], and it is possible Šeri and Ḫurri were only the Hurrian names of preexisting figures from the circle of [[Hadad|Hadda]] of [[Halab]] attested in this [[text corpus]].{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=12}} Depictions of a weather god in a chariot drawn by two bulls are well attested in art of both northern [[Syria]] and [[Anatolia]].{{sfn|Schwemer|2008|p=6}} In [[Yazılıkaya]], Šeri and Ḫurri might be depicted next to Teššub and his family ([[Ḫepat]], [[Šarruma]], [[Allanzu]] and Kunzišalli),{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=94}} though this conclusion is not universally accepted.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1992|p=178}} It is also sometimes argued that two bull-like figures from this site (reliefs 28 and 29) represent them, but due to their partially [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] appearance this is not regarded as a plausible interpretation.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1992|pp=178-179}}{{sfn|Schwemer|2001|p=481}} {{ill|Piotr Taracha|de}} instead labels them as “bull-men standing on a symbol of the Earth and supporting a symbol of Heaven”.{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=95}} Frans Wiggermann interprets these figures as an adaptation of Mesopotamian [[kusarikku]], and similarly concludes they are simply meant to support [[Earth and Heaven (Hurrian religion)|earth and heaven]].{{sfn|Wiggermann|1992|pp=178-179}} Possible depictions of Šeri and Ḫurri have also been identified on an [[orthostat]] relief from [[Malatya]] and on the [[golden bowl of Hasanlu]].{{sfn|Haas|1972|p=507}}

==Worship==

==Worship==