Teshub

Teššup ( discourse, even Teššub, Tesup, Tešub; Teschschup, Tesch boost Teschub, Teshup ) is the Hurrian weather god who is often equated with the Akkadian Adad.

Myth

According to the myth kingdom in heaven Teššup is the son of Kumarbi and grandson of An. He was born of Kumarbi after he had bitten off and swallowed the genitals of his father and sets, after defeating the demon stone Ullikummi using a sickle, from his father. Teššups wife is the sun goddess Hepat / Hepit. The son of Hepat and Teššup is Šarruma / Tsama, who was worshiped in Uda and Kummani and bull calf Teššup was called. Teššup traveling in a four-wheeled chariot across the sky, the pull the bulls Seri and Hurri ( Tilla / Hurwi ). The mountain Sapan at Ugarit ( Mons Casius, Jabal al - Aqra ʾ ) was a place of worship of the mountain of God Hazzi / hasis, which was associated iconography together with the mountain deity Nanni / Nanni worshiped with Teššup. Together with his son Šarruma defeated Teššup the snake Illujanka.

Iconography

Teššup is usually depicted with a thunderbolt in his hand. He is often on the mountains Hazzi and Nanni, such as on the relief of Atabey ( Malatya Province ) on the upper Euphrates. In Hittite sanctuary Yazılıkaya Teššup and Hepat lead the processions of male and female deities. Teššup is here also on two Bergipfeln, wearing a high crown of horns and a club over his shoulder. Armed, he is additionally equipped with an ax. He is followed by two other gods of the hills, including perhaps his father Kumarbi.

Part of their name

Teššup was an important god in the Mittani Empire and during the Hittite Empire period and also appears in royal names on, about Tunip - Teššup of Tikunani. Almost all the kings of Arrapha led Teššup on their behalf, as well Silwa - Teššup of Nuzi. Teššup can also be found in the names of writers, such as Nai- Teššup, Turar - Teššup, son of Kel- Teššup, Tarmi - Teššup and Silahi - Teššup from Nuzi or the merchant's silwa - Teššup.

Gods dynasties

The myth of the birth of Teššup ( kingship in heaven ) is returned either to Babylonian roots ( Marduk, Enuma Eliš ) or connected to an " Indo-European " topos which is also found in Hesiod's Theogony (parentage and birth of Zeus ).