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The Hittites referred to their own "thousand gods", of whom a staggering number appear in inscriptions but remain nothing more than names today. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] This multiplicity has been ascribed to a Hittite resistance to syncretization : Beckman (1989) [ 1 ] observes "many Hittite towns maintained individual storm-gods, declining to identify ...
Deities of the Hittite Empire (includes Luwian and Hattic deities). Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. H ... Kurunta (god) Kušuḫ ...
Sarie was a god whose temple was located in Apenaš in the kingdom of Arrapha. [199] Sumuqan: Gurta [35] Mesopotamian [217] Sumuqan was a god associated with wild animals, herding and wool. [217] He was already worshiped over a wide area in the third millennium, as attested in documents from Ebla, Nabada, Mari and various cities in Mesopotamia ...
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 ...
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere
During the Old Hittite Kingdom prior to 1400 BC, the king of the Hittites was not viewed by his subjects as a "living god" like the Pharaohs of Egypt, but rather as a first among equals. [61] Only in the later period from 1400 BC until 1200 BC did the Hittite kingship become more centralized and powerful.
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Tudḫaliya IV of the New Kingdom, r. c. 1245–1215 BC. [1]The dating and sequence of Hittite kings is compiled by scholars from fragmentary records, supplemented by the finds in Ḫattuša and other administrative centers of cuneiform tablets and more than 3,500 seal impressions providing the names, titles, and sometimes ancestry of Hittite kings and officials.