From being the judge, and, moreover, the supreme judge of the world, it was but natural that the conception of justice was bound up with him.

His light became symbolical of righteousness, and the absence of it, or darkness, was viewed as wickedness.

Men and gods look expectantly for his light.

He is the guide of the gods, as well as the ruler of men.
While there are no direct indications in the historical texts known at present, that this conception of the sun-god existed in all its details before the days of Hammurabi, there is every reason to believe that this was the case; the more so, in that it does not at all transcend the range of religious ideas that we have met with in the case of the other gods of this period.

Nor does this conception in any way betray itself, as being due to the changed political conditions that set in, with the union of the states under Hammurabi.