History Characters / HittiteMythology

* GodOfLight: The personified sun.

[[folder: Allani]]
Hurrian goddess of the underworld, Allani, incorporated into Hittite and Mesopotamian pantheons as well. Allatu is also spelled as Allatum.

* GodOfTheDead
* TheUnderworld

[[folder: Hutena]]
She and Hutellura were Hurrian goddesses of fate and divine midwives. Hutena is also spelled as Hudena.

* WindsOfDestinyChange

[[folder: Hutellura]]
She and Hutena appear in kaluti (offering lists) of the goddess Hebat and her circle, usually following her servant Takitu while preceding the pair Ishara and Allani. Hutellura is also spelled as Hudellura.

* HealerGod

[[folder: Kumarbi]]
Hurrians considered him an important god, being regarded as "the father of gods." He was also a member of the Hittite pantheon. According to Hurrian myths, he was a son of Alalu, and one of the parents of the storm-god Teshub, the other being Anu (the Mesopotamian sky god). His cult city was Urkesh.

* GroinAttack
* MisterSeahorse

[[folder: Kušuḫ]]
The Hurrian Moon god.

* GodOfTheMoon

[[folder: Nabarbi]]
Hurrian goddess worshiped in the proximity of the river Khabur, especially in the city Taite. Nabarbi has been proposed that she was associated with the Syrian goddess Belet Nagar.

* FertilityGod

[[folder: Nupatik]]
Hurrian god of uncertain character. Hittite king Tish-atal of Urkesh is attested to have worshiped him. He is attested in the earliest inscriptions from Urkesh, as well as in texts from many other Hurrian settlements, and possibly continued to be worshiped as late as in the neo-Assyrian period. However, his functions remain uncertain.

* MysteriousPast

[[folder: Šauška]]
The highest ranked goddess in the Hurrian pantheon, associated with love and war, as well as with incantations and by extension with healing. Šauška (or Shaushka) is also spelled as Šauša or Šawuška.

* LoveGoddess
* WarGod

[[folder: Šimige]]
The Hurrian sun god.

* GodOfLight
* PowerOfTheSun

[[folder: Teshub]]
The Hurrian god of sky, thunder, and storms. Teshub is also spelled as Teshup, Teššup, or Tešup.

* GodOfThunder
* TopGod

Allani, also known under the Akkadian name Allatu (or Allatum) was the Hurrian goddess of the underworld, incorporated into Hittite and Mesopotamian pantheons as well.

Hutena (also spelled Hudena) and Hutellura was a goddesses of fate and divine midwives in Hurrian mythology.

Hutellura (also spelled Hudellura) and Hutena appear in kaluti (offering lists) of the goddess Hebat and her circle, usually following her servant Takitu and preceding the pair Ishara and Allani.

Kumarbi was an important god of the Hurrians, regarded as "the father of gods." He was also a member of the Hittite pantheon. According to Hurrian myths, he was a son of Alalu, and one of the parents of the storm-god Teshub, the other being Anu (the Mesopotamian sky god). His cult city was Urkesh.

* TopGod

Kušuḫ (Ugaritic: kḏġ or kzġ) is the Hurrian Moon god. In the Kaluti List he is named after Ea and before the Sun god Šimige. Kušuḫ was syncretised with the Moon god of Harran (Hurrian: Kuzina, meaning 'charioteer'). Kušuḫ, "Lord of the Oath" was invoked, along with his wife Nikkal, "Lady of the Oath" and Išḫara, as guarantor of oaths. At the Hittite cliff sanctuary in Yazılıkaya, he is depicted as a winged god with a crescent moon on top of his pointy hat. He was identified with the Hittite god Kaskuh.

Nabarbi was a Hurrian goddess worshiped in the proximity of the river Khabur, especially in the city Taite. It has been proposed that she was associated with the Syrian goddess Belet Nagar.

Nupatik, also known as Lubadag, was a Hurrian god of uncertain character. He is attested in the earliest inscriptions from Urkesh, as well as in texts from many other Hurrian settlements, and possibly continued to be worshiped as late as in the neo-Assyrian period. However, his functions remain uncertain.

Šauška (Shaushka), also called Šauša or Šawuška, was the highest ranked goddess in the Hurrian pantheon, associated with love and war, as well as with incantations and by extension with healing. While she was usually referred to as a goddess and with feminine titles, such as allai (Hurrian: "lady"), references to masculine Shaushka are also known. The Hurrians associated her with Nineveh, but she was also worshiped in many other centers associated with this culture, from Anatolian cities in Kizzuwatna, through Alalakh and Ugarit in Syria, to Nuzi and Ulamme in northeastern Mesopotamia. She was also worshiped in southern Mesopotamia, where she was introduced alongside a number of other foreign deities in the Ur III period. In this area, she came to be associated with Ishtar. At a later point in time, growing Hurrian influence on Hittite culture resulted in the adoption of Shaushka into the Hittite state pantheon.

Šimige was the Hurrian sun god. From the 14th century BC he was also worshiped by the Hittites as the Sun god of Heaven. In the Hittite cliff sanctuary at Yazılıkaya, he is depicted as one of the chief deities.

Teshub (also written Teshup, Teššup, or Tešup) was the Hurrian god of sky, thunder, and storms. Taru was the name of a similar Hattic storm god, whose mythology and worship as a primary deity continued and evolved through descendant Luwian and Hittite cultures. In these two, Taru was known as Tarhun / Tarhunt- / Tarhuwant- / Tarhunta, names derived from the Anatolian root *tarh "to defeat, conquer". Taru/Tarhun/Tarhunt was ultimately assimilated into and identified with the Hurrian Teshub around the time of the religious reforms of Muwatalli II, ruler of the Hittite New Kingdom in the early 13th century BCE. These reforms can generally be categorized as an official incorporation of Hurrian deities into the Hittite pantheon, with a smaller number of important Hurrian gods (like Teshub) being explicitly identified with preexisting major Hittite deities (like Taru). Teshub reappears in the post-Hurrian cultural successor kingdom of Urartu as Tesheba, one of their chief gods; in Urartian art he is depicted standing on a bull.

* WeatherManipulation