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An early Hurrian royal inscription. Hurrians were among the inhabitants of parts of the Ancient Near East, [1] especially the north of the Fertile Crescent. [2] Their presence is attested from Cilicia in modern Turkey in the west, through the Amik Valley (), Aleppo (Halab) and the Euphrates valley in Syria, to the modern Kirkuk area in Iraq in the east. [3]
While it is sometimes assumed in scholarship that he was the father of Anu and grandfather of Kumarbi, [257] most likely two separate dynasties of gods are described in the passage in mention, and Alalu and Anu were not regarded as father and son in Hurrian tradition. [263] Another myth directly refers to Kumarbi as his son. [264]
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 Song of Ullikummi mentions that the separation of heaven and earth occurred in the distant past, at the beginning of time. [7] The tool used to accomplish this is most likely employed again to defeat the eponymous stone monster. [7] According to the same myth, heaven and earth rest on the shoulders of the giant Upelluri. [8]
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]
In Greek mythology, Uranus (/ ˈ j ʊər ə n ə s / YOOR-ə-nəs, also / j ʊ ˈ r eɪ n ə s / yoo-RAY-nəs), [2] sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. 'sky', ), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities.
Alalu is mentioned in the proem of the first part of the Kumarbi Cycle, Song of Emergence, a Hittite adaptation of Hurrian myths which relays that "formerly, in ancient times" he was the king of the gods ("king in heaven"), but in the ninth year of his reign he was overthrown by his cup-bearer, Anu, and as a result had to flee to the Dark Earth ...
It was believed that Upelluri was already alive during the separation of heaven and earth, which were placed on his back, [2] and that he lived in the "Dark Earth," the Hurrian underworld. [3] His name ends with the Hurrian suffix - luri , known also from the names of the mountain goddess Lelluri and Impaluri, sukkal (attendant deity) of the ...