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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 ...
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Utu/Shamash (Mesopotamian), [43] Shapash (Ugaritic), [42] Sun god of Heaven (Hittite) [30] Šimige was the Hurrian sun god. [12] His name means "sun." [42] He also served as a god of oracles. [30] A Hurrian incantation from Mari indicates that he was believed to have seven daughters. [44] His name could be written logographically as d UTU. [17]
The oldest example, which does not yet use their individual names, is CTH 139, dated to the reign of Arnuwanda I, where they are listed separately from “the gods of the heaven and the gods of the earth”, a grouping which according to earlier Hattian-Hittite tradition already included underworld deities of local origin. [71]
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Tarḫunna was the chief god of the Hittites and is depicted at the front of a long line of male gods in rock reliefs at the sanctuary of Yazılıkaya. There he is depicted as a bearded man with a pointed cap and a sceptre, standing on the backs of the mountain gods Namni and Ḫazzi and holding a three-pronged thunderbolt in his hand. Later ...
The name Ištanu is the Hittite form of the Hattian name Eštan and refers to the Sun goddess of Arinna. [dubious – discuss] [9] Earlier scholarship misunderstood Ištanu as the name of the male Sun god of the Heavens, [10] but more recent scholarship has held that the name is only used to refer to the Sun goddess of Arinna. [11]