Sacred Sex in the Hittite Temple of Yazilikaya
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Footnotes
Luwian is an Indo-European language that was spoken in western Anatolia and is closely related to Hittite.
Endnotes
Oliver Robert Gurney, “The Hittites,” in Arthur Cotterell, ed., The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations (New York: Mayflower Books, 1980).
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.
E.C. Krupp, Beyond the Blue Horizon—Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets (New York: Oxford University, 1994), p. 141.
Krupp, Skywatchers, Shamans, & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), pp. 143–152.
James G. Macqueen, The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986), p. 123.
Robert Alexander, The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya (London: Associated University Presses, 1986), p. 97.
Alexander, The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya, p. 98; and Akurgal, The Art of the Hittites, p. 77.
Trans. by Albrecht Goetze in Gurney, “Hittite Kingship,” in Samuel H. Hooke, ed. Myth, Ritual, and Kingship (London: Oxford University, 1958), p. 108.
Eliade, Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return (New York: Harper and Row, 1959), p. 12.