Teššub
Teššub is the weather god who struggles against Kumarbi. Kušuḫ appears as one of his allies in Hurrian mythology, but known compositions do not provide much information about his individual characteristics.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 2000 BCE
- Attested period
- -2000 – -1200
- Historical notes
- Storm god in Hurrian religion, partner of Ḫepat.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Yarikh, Umbu, Tapšuwari, Ḥawwat, Shekhinah, Iyarri, Dark Gods, Heptad, Tutelary God of Tauriša, Sandas, Sin, Nikkal, Arma, Išḫara, Nabarbi, Hadad, Asherah, Tarḫunz, Tanit, Ḫašulatḫi, Ištar
- enemy of
- Kumarbi
- consort of
- Ḫepat
- syncretized with
- Tarḫunna
- sibling of
- Šauška
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“similar to Teššub, Šauška, Kumarbi or Nabarbi. He appears in theophoric names from both eastern and western Hurrian cities. Examples include Eḫlip-Kušuḫ (“Kušuḫ saves”), attested in Mari (Tell Hariri) and Tigunani, Arip-Kušuḫ (“Kušuḫ gave”), known from the former of these sites, and Ḫazip-Kušuḫ”
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“Teššub in Hurrian religion”
#25701 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Heptad also appears in the AN.TAḪ.ŠUMSAR festival, where the Anatolian god Tarḫunna and the Hurrian god Teššub merge with each other, and during which offerings are given to the cart, weapons, thunder, clouds, dew, rains, father-gods, and vizier of Teššub, as well as to the paštištilaš Heptad.”
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