Note 570 — Chapter IX · BRIDE’S BAIRNS

“We also find Adad numbered among the gods whom the Syrians worshipped; nevertheless we find but little concerning him, and that little obscure and unsatisfactory, either in ancient or modern writers. Macrobius says, “The Assyrians, or rather the Syrians, give the name Adad to the god whom they worship, as the highest or greatest,” and adds that the signification of this name is the One or the Only. This writer also gives us clearly to understand that the Syrians adored the sun under this name; at least, the surname Adad, which was given to the sun by the natives of Heliopolis, makes them appear as one and the same.”—Christmas, H. Rev., Universal Mythology, p. 119.