He is best known for his slaying of the dragon Illuyanka. Also Called: Tarhun, Tarhunt, Tarhunzas, Tesheba (Urartian) Teshub is the Hurrian god of the sky, thunder, and storms. Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning. Etymology: As Tarhun, the name means The Conqueror Also Spelled: (cuneiform), Teshup, Teup, and Teup.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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Teshub is depicted holding a triple thunderbolt and a weapon, usually an axe (often double-headed) or mace. Teshub reappears in the post-Hurrian cultural successor kingdom of Urartu as Tesheba, one of their chief gods in Urartian art he is depicted standing on a bull. These reforms can generally be categorized as an official incorporation of Hurrian deities into the Hittite pantheon, with a smaller number of important Hurrian gods (like Teshub) being explicitly identified with preexisting major Hittite deities (like Taru). The Zeus-Typhon and and Baal-Yam conflicts were preceded by the Hittite myth of Tarhunt and the dragon Illuyanka, the Indian myth of the god Indra’s defeat of the dragon Vrtra (with a thunderbolt, naturally), and before that, the account of Marduk and Tiamat in the Babylonian creation epic, the Enuma Elish. hypaethral edifices were constructed explicitly to honor the Thunder God Tarhun, Perhun, Ur-An (Lat. Taru/Tarhun/Tarhunt was ultimately assimilated into and identified with the Hurrian Teshub around the time of the religious reforms of Muwatalli II, ruler of the Hittite New Kingdom in the early 13th century BCE. 5 Above: Bronze bull-horned head of young Dionis.
Reverse: POSEDA Bull butting to left, a cuttle-fish below. In these two, Taru was known as Tarhun / Tarhunt- / Tarhuwant- / Tarhunta, names derived from the Anatolian root *tarh "to defeat, conquer". Etymology: As Tarhun, the name means The Conqueror Also Spelled: (cuneiform), Teshup, Teup, and Teup Also Called: Tarhun, Tarhunt, Tarhunzas, Tesheba (Urartian) Teshub is the Hurrian god of the sky, thunder, and storms. Obverse: Poseidon advancing right naked, brandishing trident.
Taru was the name of a similar Hattic storm god, whose mythology and worship as a primary deity continued and evolved through descendant Luwian and Hittite cultures. Teshub (also written Teshup, Teššup, or Tešup cuneiform dIM hieroglyphic Luwian ( DEUS) TONITRUS, read as Tarhunzas ) was the Hurrian god of sky, thunder, and storms.