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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 ...
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.
List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king; Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions
(Top) 1 Mythologies by region. Toggle Mythologies by region subsection. 1.1 Africa. ... Hittite mythology; Iranian mythology. Kurdish mythology; Mazandarani mythology;
Pages in category "Hittite mythology" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
Bear god / goddess; A132.9. Cattle god / goddess; A161.2. King of the Gods; A177.1. Gods as Dupe or Tricksters; A192. Death or departure of the gods; A193. Gods of Dying-and-rising; A200—A299. Gods of the Upper World A210. Gods of the Sky; A220. Gods of the Sun; A240. Gods of the Moon; A250. Gods of the Stars; A260. Gods of Light; A270. Gods ...