Kassite deities
[8] Those kings adopted both the languages (Sumerian and Akkadian) and religion of the Babylonians, and were actively involved in maintaining temples of Mesopotamian deities, for example Eanna in Uruk.
[14] Some of the names invoked Mesopotamian, rather than Kassite, deities: Adad, Enlil, Ištar of Agade, Ištaran (dKA.DI), Laguda, Marduk and Urash.
[15] Babylonian and Assyrian rulers most likely tolerated the worship of Kassite deities,[4] and some of them are still attested in sources from Mesopotamia from the first millennium BCE.
"[17] Occasional references in literature to a singular instance of Saḫ written with a dingir in a personal name, Kadašman-Saḫ, are the result of an erroneous restoration.
[24] The last king of the so-called Bazi dynasty, which might have had Kassite origin,[25] bore a theophoric name invoking Šuqamuna, Širikti-Šuqamuna.
[26] He reigned for only three months in 985 BCE, no inscriptions attributed to him survive, and it is assumed he was a brother of the previous king, Ninurta-kudurri-usur I.
[27] As noted by John A. Brinkman, the similarities between names "even if accepted, need not to imply more than temporary and perhaps mediate contact between the various groups or their cultural forebears.
[68] A goddess with a similar name, Kaššītu (dkaš-ši-tu,[68] "the Kassite") appears in sources from the first millennium BCE,[5] and might have developed from Šumaliya,[68] though it has also been proposed that she represented a complete innovation, as other goddesses personifying population groups are attested for the first time from the same period, namely Aḫlamayītu ("the Aramean") and Sutītu ("the Sutean").
[72] She is also mentioned among deities Sennacherib carried off from Uruk, but she is absent from offering lists from the city's archive, attached to the Eanna temple.
[76] Additionally, it has been proposed that Šuqamuna and Šumaliya correspond to the Ugaritic deities Ṯkmn and Šnm (Ṯukamuna-wa-Šunama), known from the text KTU 1.114 (RS 24.258), in which they carry the head god El after he got drunk.
[57] On the basis of this theory, Dennis Pardee proposed that "Ṯukmuna" was a deity with a Semitic name, adopted into the Kassite pantheon.
[57] However, the supposed presence of Šuqamuna and Šumaliya in the Ugaritic texts is a controversial topic in scholarship, and the matter is unresolved.
