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The Hurrian pantheon consisted of gods of varied backgrounds, some of them natively Hurrian, while others adopted from other pantheons, [1] [2] for example Eblaite [3] and Mesopotamian. [4] Like the other inhabitants of the Ancient Near East , Hurrians regarded their gods as anthropomorphic. [ 5 ]
Hurrian divine names are often simple and epithet-like, for example Allani means "the lady," Šauška - "the great," and Nabarbi - "she of Nawar." [58] The word referring to gods was eni, [59] plural enna. [34] As in other cultures of the Ancient Near East, Hurrian gods were imagined as anthropomorphic. [60]
Hurrian primeval deities were regarded as an early generation of gods in Hurrian mythology. A variety of Hurrian, Hittite and Akkadian labels could be used to refer to them. They were believed to inhabit the underworld, where they were seemingly confined by Teshub. Individual texts contain a variety of different listings of primeval deities ...
The Hurrian myth "The Songs of Ullikummi", preserved among the Hittites, is a parallel to Hesiod's Theogony; the castration of Uranus by Cronus may be derived from the castration of Anu by Kumarbi, while Zeus's overthrow of Cronus and Cronus's regurgitation of the swallowed gods is like the Hurrian myth of Teshub and Kumarbi. [58]
Pages in category "Hurrian deities" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. ... Tenu (god) Teshub; Tilla (deity) U. Ugur (god) Uršui
Teshub was the Hurrian weather god, as well as the head of the Hurrian pantheon. The etymology of his name is uncertain, though it is agreed it can be classified as linguistically Hurrian. Both phonetic and logographic writings are attested. As a deity associated with the weather, Teshub could be portrayed both as destructive and protective.
Like all other major Hurrian gods, Kumarbi was believed to be served by a divine “vizier”, Mukišānu . [58] His name was derived from the toponym Mukiš. [59] A single text from Ugarit instead describes Šarruma as the deity playing this role, [60] but he is better attested in association with Ḫepat and Teshub. [61]
Hamurnu alone appears in a copy of the god list Anšar = Anum, where he is also explained as a name of Anu. [6] However, Anu was incorporated into Hurrian tradition under his own name. [20] The correspondence between the Hurrian words eše and hawurni and Mesopotamian deities d ḫa-mur-nim and d ḫa-a-a-šum has been established by Wilfred G ...