Selardi (Sielardi or possibly Melardi) is a lunar deity of Urartu. Until recently, it was generally believed that this deity was female, although some contemporary scholars disagree with this.
Selardi (Sielardi or possibly Melardi) is a lunar deity of Urartu. Until recently, it was generally believed that this deity was female, although some contemporary scholars disagree with this.
Selardi was believed to be the counterpart to the Babylonian moon god, Sin. Nicholas Adontz theorizes that the name "Sielardi" is derived from "Siela," meaning "woman" or "sister," and "Ardi" which means "sun god" in Armenian. He states that in the ancient east, the Moon had been considered the sister of the Sun, rather than his consort.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).