San is "the supreme ruler who casts a favorable eye on expeditions," "the vanquisher of the king's enemies," "the breaker-up of opposition." He "casts his motive influence" over the monarchs, and causes them to "assemble their chariots and warriors"-- he goes forth with their armies, and enables them to extend their dominions--he chases their enemies before them, causes opposition to cease, and brings them back with victory to their own countries.

Besides this, he helps them to sway the sceptre of power, and to rule over their subjects with authority.

It seems that, from observing the manifest agency of the material sun in stimulating all the functions of nature, the Chaldaeans came to the conclusion that the sun-god exerted a similar influence on the minds of men, and was the great motive agent in human history.
The chief seats of the sun-god's worship in Chaldaea appear to have been the two famous cities of Larsa (Ellasar ?) and Sippara.

The great temple of the Sun, called Bit-Parra, at the former place, was erected by Urukh, repaired by more than one of the later Chaldaean monarchs, and completely restored by Nebuchadnezzar.

At Sippara, the worship of the sun-god was so predominant, that Abydenus, probably following Berosus, calls the town Heliopolis.