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Footnotes

1.

Luwian is an Indo-European language that was spoken in western Anatolia and is closely related to Hittite.

2.

The Hittites, who never met a god they didn’t like, had their own version of the storm god: In Hittite state religion, Teshub became the Weather God of Hattusha, who presided over the Great Temple and whose cult was linked specifically to the capital city.

Endnotes

1.

Kurt Bittel, Hattusha: The Capital of the Hittites (New York: Oxford University, 1970), p. 91.

2.

Bittel, Hattusha, p. 107.

3.

Oliver Robert Gurney, “The Hittites,” in Arthur Cotterell, ed., The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations (New York: Mayflower Books, 1980).

4.

Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, Volume I—From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1978), p. 140.

5.

Ekrem Akurgal, The Art of the Hittites (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1962), p. 78.

6.

E.C. Krupp, Beyond the Blue Horizon—Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets (New York: Oxford University, 1994), p. 141.

7.

Krupp, Skywatchers, Shamans, & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), pp. 143–152.

8.

Bittel, Hattusha, p. 108.

9.

James G. Macqueen, The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986), p. 123.

10.

Akurgal, The Art of the Hittites, p. 77.

11.

Robert Alexander, The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya (London: Associated University Presses, 1986), p. 97.

12.

Akurgal, Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey (Istanbul: Haset Kitabevi, 1973), p. 314.

13.

Alexander, The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya, p. 100.

14.

Krupp, Beyond the Blue Horizon, p. 204.

15.

Alexander, The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya, p. 98; and Akurgal, The Art of the Hittites, p. 77.

16.

Trans. by Albrecht Goetze in Gurney, “Hittite Kingship,” in Samuel H. Hooke, ed. Myth, Ritual, and Kingship (London: Oxford University, 1958), p. 108.

17.

Alexander, The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya, p. 97.

18.

Macqueen, The Hittites and Their Contemporaries, p. 115.

19.

Bittel, Hattusha, p. 111.

20.

Bittel, Guide to Bogûazko¬y (Ankara: Bahçelievler, 1972), p. 52.

21.

Eliade, Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return (New York: Harper and Row, 1959), p. 12.

22.

Krupp, Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996), pp. 143–152.