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Telipinu was the last king of the Hittites Old Kingdom, reigning c. 1525–1500 BC in middle chronology. [2] At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite Empire had contracted to its core territories, having long since lost all of its conquests, made in the former era under Hattusili I and Mursili I – to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskians in the North, and Kizzuwatna in the ...
Telipinu (Hittite: 𒀭𒋼𒂊𒇷𒁉𒉡𒌑, romanized: d Te(-e)-li-pí-nu(-ú); Hattic: Talipinu or Talapinu, "Exalted Son") [1] was a Hittite god who most likely served as a patron of farming, though he has also been suggested to have been a storm god or an embodiment of crops. [1]
She subsequently stays with Telipinu in the abode of his father, the weather god Tarḫunna, but her own father eventually demands a bride price. [22] After consulting the goddess Ḫannaḫanna, Tarḫunna decides to pay, and the sea god receives a thousand cattle and a thousand sheep in exchange for his daughter. [23]
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 ...
As a result, the world drowns in darkness, [24] which prompts Tarḫunna, the weather god, to send his firstborn son Telipinu to retrieve him. [23] His arrival apparently scares Aruna, who offers him his daughter as a bride. [25]} While not named in the myth, she is presumed to be one and the same as Telipinu's well attested spouse Ḫatepuna. [26]
Though drawing on ancient Mesopotamian religion, the religion of the Hittites and Luwians retains noticeable elements of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European mythology.For example, Tarhunt, the god of thunder and his conflict with the serpent Illuyanka resembles the conflict between Indra and the cosmic serpent Vritra in Vedic mythology, or Thor and the serpent Jörmungandr in Norse mythology.
In Disappearance of Telipinu, she instructs the other gods how to ensure the eponymous vegetation deity's return after an initial attempt fails. [17] The magical procedure she prepares involves an offering of twelve sheep taken from the herds of the sun god, which had to be taken to Ḫapantali, [18] a Luwian shepherd goddess. [19]
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.