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Telipinu (mythology)

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In other references it is a mortal priest who prays for all of Telipinu's anger to be sent to bronze containers in the underworld, from which nothing escapes. In either case, it is difficult to determine anything about the nature of Telipinu from this myth, as myths along the same pattern have also
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Mist seized the windows. Smoke seized the house. On the hearth the logs were stifled. On the altars the gods were stifled. In the fold the sheep were stifled. In the corral the cows were stifled. The sheep refused her lamb. The cow refused her calf. Telipinu went off and took away grain, the
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Telipinu was honored every nine years with an extravagant festival in the autumn at Ḫanḫana and Kašḫa, wherein 1000 sheep and 50 oxen were sacrificed and the symbol of the god, an oak tree, was replanted. He was also invoked formulaically in a daily prayer for King
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fertility of the herds, growth, plenty, and satiety into the wilderness, to the meadow and the moor... Humans and gods perish from hunger.
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Beckman, Gary. "The Tongue is a Bridge: Communication between Humans and Gods in Hittite Anatolia", in
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god who most likely served as a patron of farming, though he has also been suggested to have been a
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In order to stop the havoc and devastation, the gods seek Telipinu but fail to find him.
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It has been suggested that Telipinu endured in later mythology as the Greek
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Telepinu (god)
cuneiform script
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Telipinu
Hittite
Hattic
Hittite
storm god
weather god
Tarḫunna
Taru
solar goddess
Arinniti
mythology
Ḫatepuna
Šepuru
de
Kataḫḫa
Muršili II
Hannahanna
mother goddess
Kamrušepa
Underworld
Anzili
Zukki
de
Telephus
Telepia
Telipinu

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