Ullikummi

Ullikummi (translated likely destroyer of Kummiya ) is a gigantic stone demon of Hurrian mythology, which was taken over by the Hittites. He is an enemy of Teššub.

Kumarbi, overthrown by his son Teššub, he inadvertently received by Anu, the loss of his reign can not accept and secured the support of the god of the sea. According to another variant, he married the daughter of the sea god and is a testament to her Ullikummi. This consists entirely of kukunuzzi - stone, a diorite.

The Irširra - Ammengöttinnen hide the fledgling Ullikummi on the right shoulder of the world giant Ubelluri who bears Atlas the world on his arms. There Ullikummi growing in height and gaining strength to immense size, so soon his shadow darkens the world. He is discovered by the sun god Šimegi, which immediately informs the weather gods Teššub. This sends Ishtar / Šawoška, trying to make the stone giant harmless with their seductive arts. But as the stone giant is blind and deaf, good is all nothing. Now Teššub engages itself with thunder and rain on, but his weapons are unsuccessful. So wins Ullikummi, forcing Teššub to abdicate and is itself king of the gods.

Teššub appealed to Ea to call the gods in the freshwater ocean of Abzu, to see what could be done to meet the desperate situation. Ea consulted Enlil, who shows him where he could find the mythical sickle made ​​of copper, with the former heaven and earth were separated. With the help of the wise Ea succeeds Ullikummi to plunge again by cutting off and destroying his feet with this sickle. Teššub found again the power and dominion over the earth.

The whole myth is connected with a spring festival, which is the new rule of Teššub.

Parallels

In the comparable legend of Zeus and Typhon Zeus crashes a huge mountain over Typhon, who is now trapped under disem ( Etna ) and occasionally the earth brings to the quake because he muses angry revenge. Interestingly, Kronos is represented by the attribute of a sickle.

The story also has parallels to Loki's imprisonment and Persian literature Shahnameh, where the villain is trapped in the crater of Mount Damavand. That speaks for successful dissemination of the myth during the reign of the Hittites.