Teshub (also written Teshup) was the Hurrian god of sky and storm. The Hurrians (also Khurrites; cuneiform Ḫu-ur-ri 𒄷𒌨𒊑 were a people of the Ancient Near East, who lived in northern Mesopotamia He was derived from the Hattian Taru. The Hattians were an ancient people who inhabited the land of Hatti in present-day central and southeastern parts of Anatolia, Turkey. His Hittite and Luwian name was Tarhun (with variant stem forms Tarhunt, Tarhuwant, Tarhunta). The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family and established Luwian (sometimes spelled Luvian) is an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of the
He is depicted holding a triple thunderbolt and a weapon, usually an axe (often double-headed) or mace. A thunderbolt is a traditional expression for a discharge of Lightning or a symbolic representation thereof The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape split and cut Wood, Harvest timber, as a Weapon Labrys is the term for a doubleheaded Axe, known to the Classical Greeks as pelekys ( or Sagaris, and to the Romans as a bipennis A mace is a simple Weapon that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful blows The sacred bull common throughout Anatolia was his signature animal, represented by his horned crown or by his steeds Seri and Hurri, who drew his chariot or carried him on their backs. Appearances of the Bull (also known as Taurus) in Mythology and worship are widespread in the ancient world Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black The Hurrians (also Khurrites; cuneiform Ḫu-ur-ri 𒄷𒌨𒊑 were a people of the Ancient Near East, who lived in northern Mesopotamia The chariot is the earliest and simplest type of Carriage, used in both peace and war as the chief vehicle of many ancient peoples In the Hurrian schema, he was paired with Hebat the mother goddess; in the Hittite, with the sun goddess of Arinna—a cultus of great antiquity which may ultimately derive from the bull god and mother goddess worshipped at Çatalhöyük in the Neolithic era. The Mother goddess of the Hurrians. Hebat also Kheba or Khepat, known as "the mother of all living" was the consort of Teshub A mother goddess is a Goddess, often portrayed as the Earth Mother who serves as a general Fertility deity the bountiful embodiment of the Earth. Arinna was the major cult center of the Hittite sun goddess, known as dUTU URU Arinna "sun goddess of Arinna (Lycian Arñna This article discusses cult in the original and typically ancient sense of "religious practice" (cultus Çatalhöyük (ʧɑtɑl højyk in Turkish also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without Diacritics çatal is Turkish The Neolithic (from Greek νεολιθικός — neolithikos from νέος neos, "new" + λίθος lithos Myths also exist of his conflict with the sea creature (possibly a snake or serpent) Hedammu (CTH 348). The corpus of texts written in the Hittite language is indexed by the Catalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH since 1971, edited by Emmanuel His son was Sarruma. Sarruma or Sharruma is an originally Hurrian god who was adopted into the Hittite pantheon According to Hittite myth, one of his greatest acts was the slaying of the dragon Illuyanka. In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpentine Dragon slain by Tarhunt ( the Hittite incarnation of the Hurrian
He is similar to the Vedic deity Indra. There are 1028 hymns in the Rigveda, most of them dedicated to specific deities. Indra ( Sanskrit: इन्द्र or इंद्र Indra, Malay: Indera, Thai: พระอินทร์ Phra-Intra
The Hurrian myth of Teshub's origin—he was conceived when the god Kumarbi bit off and swallowed his father Anu's genitals—is a likely inspiration for the story of Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus, which is recounted in Hesiod's Theogony. Kumarbi is the Hurrian god son of Anu, and father of the Weather-God Teshub. In Sumerian mythology and later for Assyrians and Babylonians Anu (also An; (from Sumerian *An = sky heaven was a sky-god Uranus (ˈjʊərənəs jʊˈreɪnəs is the Latinized form of Ouranos () the Greek word for Sky. Cronus or Kronos, ( Ancient Greek Κρόνος Krónos) was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants Zeus (zjuːs in Greek: nominative: Zeús /zdeús/ genitive: Diós; Modern Greek /'zefs/ in Greek mythology Hesiod ( Greek: Hesiodos) was an early Greek Poet and Rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BCE Theogony ( Greek: Θεογονία theogonia = the birth of God(s is a Poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogies