>>21592566>>21592567The Hurrian/Hittite Empire was the result of the fusion between two different peoples. One was a people native to the region that inhabited Upper Mesopotamia for a long time and who spoke a language that was neither from the Indo-European nor Semitic linguistic family, such as Urartian, but which was from its own linguistic family, currently called hurro-urartian. Another was a people speaking an Indo-European language from the western region of the Iranian plateau, perhaps in the 18th or 17th century BC, but who, despite this, were more related to the people speaking the Indo-Aryan or Indic branch, of the north from India. The Harappan language is linked to Proto-Sumerian/Elamite because it was the BMAC that created IVC/Harappan Civilization. These people called themselves Haryani or Aryani - Aryans (both Iranians and those from northern India). These migrating Indo-European people conquered Upper Mesopotamia, becoming the rulers of that territory and forming a large part of the aristocracy.
The Sumerians said that the home of their gods was called Dilmun, which is Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. That's why the Phoenicians themselves traced their ancestry back to Bahrain, as reported by Herodotus, Strabo, and others. Babylon was founded by Amorites. Amorites spoke a Western Semitic language but likely had some Indo-European ancestry, as red hair was known among them and they worshiped the Storm God (Amurru), as all Indo-Europeans did.
Fun Fact: Amurru = El = Yahweh
>There is evidence that the Canaanite/Phoenician and Aramaic conception of El is essentially the same as the Amorite conception of El, which was popularized in the 18th century BCE but has origins in the Pre-Sargonic period. Any "changes" in El's status can be explained by the randomness of available data. Tribal organizations in West Semitic culture also influenced El's portrayal as a "treaty partner" in covenants, where the clan is seen as the "kin" of the deity 