The Song of Kumarbi (CTH 344, also Kingship in Heaven) is the title given to a Hittite version of the Hurrian Kumarbi myth, dating to the 14th or 13th century BC. It is preserved in three tablets, but only a small fraction of the text is legible. The corpus of texts written in the Hittite language is indexed by the Catalogue des Textes Hittites (CTH, since 1971, edited by Emmanuel Laroche). ... Hittite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who once created an empire centered on ancient Hattusas (modern BoÄŸazkale) in north-central Anatolia (modern Turkey). ... The word Hurrian may refer to: An ancient people of the Near East, the Hurrians. ... The Hurrian father of the gods. ...

tablet A. KUB 33.120 + KUB 33.119 + KUB 36.31 + KUB 48.97

tablet B. KUB 36.1

tablet C. KUB 48.97

Kumarbi bit off the genitals of Anu and spat out three new gods: Alalu was overthrown by Anu who was in turn overthrown by Kumarbi. When Anu tried to escape Kumarbi bites off his genitals. Anu tells his son that he is now pregnant with the the storm god (Teshub/Tarhun), Tigris and Tashmishu. Upon hearing this Kumarbi spit the semen upon the ground and it became impregnated with two children. Kumarbi becomes pregnant and is cut open to deliver the storm god. Together, Anu and Teshub depose Kumarbi. In another version^{[citation needed]} of the Kingship in Heaven, the three gods, Alalu, Anu and Kumarbi, rule heaven each serving the one who precedes him in the nine-year reign. It is Kumarbi's son Tešub, the Weather-God, who begins to conspire to overthrow his father. Teshub was the Hurrian god of sky and storm. ... The Tigris is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq. ...

Scholars have pointed out the similarities between the Hurrian creation myth and the story of Ouranos, Kronos, and Zeus from Hesiod's Theogony. Chronos is the personification of time in Greek mythology There is also Cronus, the similarly named Greek mythological Titan, father of Zeus. ... The Statue of Zeus at Olympia Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in Ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th century engraving Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Zeús, genitive: Diós), is... Bust, traditionally thought to be Seneca, now identified by some as Hesiod. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Theogony Wikisource has original text related to this article: Theogony (in Greek) Theogony is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins of the gods of ancient Greek religion. ...

References

• Güterbock H. G. (1946-48), The Hittite Version of the Hurrian Kumarbi Myth, American Journal of Archaeology, New York.
• Laroche E. (1971), Catalogue des textes hittites, Paris

External links

• http://membres.lycos.fr/hatti/articles/hlk_5_1.html