According to Petrine Sabianism, Anush Uthra ordered that a messenger be assigned to each of the 72 nations. Addai (Thaddeus) was the one of the Seventy Disciples who was sent to Edessa. Addai was one of the 6 disciples answerable directly to the apostle Thomas. The language of the area was supposed to have beenan been an agglutinative language related to Elamite.