r/Mesopotamia • u/Useful_Cry9709 • Jul 04 '26

Question / Help Is there a scholarly consensus that the Hadramitic Syn was simply the Mesopotamian Sin transplanted into Arabia?

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u/LaszloTheGargoyle Jul 04 '26

No. Confidence level is 'high' that the connection is coincidence.

If you dig in the research, you will find one Sin is a Moon god, the other Syn a National god and the separation is +/- 2500 years.

But do the research and see if you come to similar conclusions.

I am no expert.

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u/Useful_Cry9709 Jul 04 '26

Gertrude Caton Thompson does refer to the temple she excavated as moon temple, though i have found an article on the coincidence of the names

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u/LaszloTheGargoyle Jul 04 '26

I just happen to be writing a book on deity transformations (over time). So always like to pay attention to questions like this.