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Urartian Religion
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The state religion of the kingdom of Urartu, a royal cult built around the god Haldi and centred on his principal temple at Ardini (Musasir), with regional temples elsewhere in the kingdom maintaining the same ranked pantheon under royal patronage. Kings recorded their campaigns, dedications and sacrifice lists directly in cuneiform on rock faces and temple walls, which is the near totality of the surviving evidence: the religion left no narrative mythology and did not survive the kingdom's collapse in the early sixth century BCE.
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Origin PeriodThe kingdom of Urartu is conventionally dated to have formed around the ninth century BCE from the earlier Nairi confederation, though historians differ on the exact decade, commonly citing a range from about 860 to 830 BCE. No separate founding of Haldi's state cult is recorded apart from the kingdom itself, so this entry records the kingdom's own approximate formation as the religion's earliest secure anchor. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Urartian Religion directly: "as a core academic reference for Urartian religion including its state cult of Haldi."
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1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005Encyclopedia of Religion entry on Urartian religion as the basis for the religion overviewView the Source Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
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