Teshub

Teshub is the principal god of the Pantheon hourrite, the king of the gods. He is the god of the Storm, i.e. climatic phenomena like the rain, the wind, the lightning, the thunder, which are its weapons. Teshub is thus to bring closer to other similar divinities occupying they also an important place in their Pantheon, like Adad (Mésopotamie), Addu (Amorrites), Hadad/Baal (Canaan), Tarhu (Hittites) or Tesheba (Urartu). Like those, it is often represented by a bull, symbol of fertility.

Teshub has for parèdre Hebat, and together they have a son, Sharruma. The place of principal worship of Teshub is at Kumme, with the Kurdistan. But he is also venerated in the temples devoted in general to the god of the Storm, as with Alep, Arrapha, Kummani and the rupestral sanctuary hittite of Yazılıkaya.

Teshub is the main actor of certain myths hourrites, like the Chant of the royalty of the Sky (or Théogonie hourrite ), in which he fights against his father, the god Kumarbi, that it manages to drive out to take itself the capacity on the other gods. Two other myths, the Myth of Hedammu and the Chant of Ullikummi tell how Kumarbi tries in an unfruitful way to be avenged for his/her son. In the second myth, Teshub must overcome Ullikummi, a giant created by his father to overcome the other gods. After overcomebeing overcome first once, it succeeds in gaining with the assistance of the god Ea.

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