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Hittite mythology and Hittite religion were the religious beliefs and practices of the Hittites, who created an empire centered in what is now Turkey from c. 1600–1180 BC. Most of the narratives embodying Hittite mythology are lost, and the elements that would give a balanced view of Hittite religion are lacking among the tablets recovered at ...
Mythology portal; Asia portal; Deities of the Hittite Empire (includes Luwian and Hattic deities). Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ...
Pages in category "Hittite mythology" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Yazılıkaya sanctuary, which was Hittite in origin but served as a center of the practice of Hurrian religion, is considered a valuable source of information about their iconography. [7] Hurrians organized their gods into lists known as kaluti [8] or into similar lexical lists as the Mesopotamians. [9]
In Hittite, the same group was called karuilieš šiuneš, “primeval gods” or kattereš šiuneš, “lower gods”. [10] [a] Both terms were calques from Hurrian. [8] They could also be called taknaš šiuneš, “gods of the underworld” or “gods of the earth”. [3] A logographic (“Akkadographic”) writing, A-NUN-NA-KE 4, is also ...
A group of twelve Hittite gods is known both from cuneiform texts and from artistic representation. All the Hittite Twelve are male, with no individualizing features. The Roman Empire period group is a possible reflex of the Lycians' twelve gods: By 400 BCE, a precinct dedicated to twelve gods existed at the marketplace in Xanthos, Lycia.
King of Gods in Manipuri mythology; King of Serpent deities in Manipuri mythology; Philippine deities; West Asia. Anatolia. Hittite deities; Hurrian deities; Lydian deities; Middle East. Mesopotamian deities. Assyro-Babylonian pantheon (see also Family tree of the Babylonian gods) Kassite deities; Sumerian deities; Ugaritic deities; Semitic ...
A fragmentary late neo-Assyrian god list appears to consider her and another figure regarded as the wife of Anu, Urash, as one and the same, and refers to "Ki-Urash." [403] Kittum: Bad-Tibira, Rahabu [404] Kittum was a daughter of Utu and Sherida. [405] Her name means "Truth". [405] Kus: Kus is a god of herdsmen referenced in the Theogony of ...