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Teshub (also written Teshup) was the Hurrian
Hurrians

The Hurrians were a people of the Ancient Near East, who lived in northern Mesopotamia and areas to the immediate east and west, beginning approximately 2500 BC....
 god of sky and storm. He was derived from the Hattian
Hattians

The Hattians were an ancient people who inhabited the land of Hatti in present-day central and southeastern parts of Anatolia, Turkey. The Hattian civilisation was situated between ca....
 Taru. His Hittite
Hittites

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
 and Luwian name was Tarhun (with variant stem forms Tarhunt, Tarhuwant, Tarhunta).

He is depicted holding a triple thunderbolt
Thunderbolt

A thunderbolt is a traditional expression for a discharge of lightning or a symbolic representation thereof. In its original usage the word may also have been a description of meteors, although this is not currently the case....
 and a weapon, usually an axe
Axe

The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for Millennium to shape, split and cut wood, harvest Lumber, as a weapon and a ceremony or Heraldry symbol....
 (often double-headed
Labrys

Labrys is the term for a symmetrical doubleheaded axe, known to the Classical Greeks as pelekus or sagaris, and to the Romans as a bipennis....
) or mace. The sacred bull
Bull (mythology)

Appearances of the Bull in mythology and worship are widespread in the ancient world. It is the subject of various cultural and Religion incarnations, as well as modern mentions in new age cultures....
 common throughout Anatolia
Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
 was his signature animal, represented by his horned crown or by his steeds Seri and Hurri, who drew his chariot
Chariot

The chariot is the earliest and simplest type of carriage, used in both peace and war as the chief vehicle of many ancient peoples. Chariots were built in Mesopotamia by the Mesopotamians as early as 3000 BC and in China during the 2nd millennium BC....
 or carried him on their backs.






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Teshub (also written Teshup) was the Hurrian
Hurrians

The Hurrians were a people of the Ancient Near East, who lived in northern Mesopotamia and areas to the immediate east and west, beginning approximately 2500 BC....
 god of sky and storm. He was derived from the Hattian
Hattians

The Hattians were an ancient people who inhabited the land of Hatti in present-day central and southeastern parts of Anatolia, Turkey. The Hattian civilisation was situated between ca....
 Taru. His Hittite
Hittites

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
 and Luwian name was Tarhun (with variant stem forms Tarhunt, Tarhuwant, Tarhunta).

He is depicted holding a triple thunderbolt
Thunderbolt

A thunderbolt is a traditional expression for a discharge of lightning or a symbolic representation thereof. In its original usage the word may also have been a description of meteors, although this is not currently the case....
 and a weapon, usually an axe
Axe

The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for Millennium to shape, split and cut wood, harvest Lumber, as a weapon and a ceremony or Heraldry symbol....
 (often double-headed
Labrys

Labrys is the term for a symmetrical doubleheaded axe, known to the Classical Greeks as pelekus or sagaris, and to the Romans as a bipennis....
) or mace. The sacred bull
Bull (mythology)

Appearances of the Bull in mythology and worship are widespread in the ancient world. It is the subject of various cultural and Religion incarnations, as well as modern mentions in new age cultures....
 common throughout Anatolia
Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
 was his signature animal, represented by his horned crown or by his steeds Seri and Hurri, who drew his chariot
Chariot

The chariot is the earliest and simplest type of carriage, used in both peace and war as the chief vehicle of many ancient peoples. Chariots were built in Mesopotamia by the Mesopotamians as early as 3000 BC and in China during the 2nd millennium BC....
 or carried him on their backs. In the Hurrian schema, he was paired with Hebat
Hebat

Hebat also transcribed a Kheba or Khepat, was the mother goddess of the Hurrians, known as "the mother of all living". She was the consort of Teshub and the mother of Sarruma....
 the mother goddess
Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a term used to refer to any goddess associated with motherhood, fertility, creation or the bountiful embodiment of the Earth....
; in the Hittite, with the sun goddess of Arinna
Arinna

Arinna was the major cult center of the Hittites solar deity, known as dUTU URUArinna "sun goddess of Arinna ". She is one of three important solar deities of the Hittite pantheon, besides UTU nepisas "the sun of the sky" and UTU taknas "the sun of the earth"....
—a cultus of great antiquity which may ultimately derive from the bull god and mother goddess worshipped at Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük

?atalh?y?k was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, c 7500-5700 BCE. It is the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date....
 in the Neolithic
Neolithic

The Neolithic period was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 Before the Christian Era in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age....
 era. Myths also exist of his conflict with the sea creature (possibly a snake or serpent) Hedammu (CTH 348). His son was Sarruma
Sarruma

Sarruma or Sharruma is an originally Hurrian god who was adopted into the Hittites pantheon. His name means "king of the mountains" and he is a son of the weather-god Teshub and the goddess Hebat....
. According to Hittite myth, one of his greatest acts was the slaying of the dragon Illuyanka
Illuyanka

In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpent dragon slain by Tarhunt , the Hittite language incarnation of the Hurrians god of sky and storm....
.

The Hurrian myth of Teshub's origin—he was conceived when the god Kumarbi
Kumarbi

Kumarbi is the Hurrian god, son of Anu, and father of the Weather-God Teshub.In the cuneiform text given the modern name Kingship in Heaven,...
 bit off and swallowed his father Anu's genitals—is a likely inspiration for the story of Uranus
Uranus (mythology)

Uranus is the Latinized form of Ouranos , the Greek language word for sky. In Greek mythology Uranus , or Father Sky, is personified as the son and husband of Gaia , Mother Earth ....
, Cronus
Cronus

Cronus or Kronos, , was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titan , divine descendants of Gaia , the earth, and Uranus , the sky....
, and Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
, which is recounted in Hesiod
Hesiod

Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
's Theogony
Theogony

The Theogony is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogy of the polytheism of the ancient Greeks, composed circa 700 BC....
.

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    Perkunas

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  • Labraunda
    Labraunda

    In Antiquity, Labraunda in the mountains near the coast of Caria in Asia Minor was held sacred by Carians and Mysians alike. The site amid its sacred plane trees was enriched in the Hellenistic style by the Hecatomnus dynasty of Mausolus, satrap of Persia , for whom it was the ancestral sacred shrine....
  • Indra
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  • Illuyanka
    Illuyanka

    In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpent dragon slain by Tarhunt , the Hittite language incarnation of the Hurrians god of sky and storm....
  • Tarchon
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  • Thor
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  • Shango
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  • Ninurta
    Ninurta

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