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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]
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 ...
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 ...
Telipinu (or Telepinu) Proclamation is a Hittite edict, written during the reign of King Telipinu, c. 1525-1500 BCE. [1] The text is classified as CTH 19 in the Catalogue of Hittite Texts . The edict is significant because it made possible to reconstruct a succession of Hittite Kings.
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]
According to Hittite mythology, the god of agriculture, Telipinu, went on a rampage and refused to allow anything to grow and animals would not produce offspring. The gods went in search of Telipinu only to fail. Then the goddess Ḫannaḫanna sent forth a bee to bring him back. The bee found Telipinu, stung him and smeared wax upon him.
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.