Ḫaḫḫima

Ḫaḫḫima is the hattish - Hittite frost demon and a major enemy of the gods.

Ḫaḫḫima freezes the waters, the gardens, the pastures and the cattle. The frost demon also freezes the gods Ištanu , Zababa , Inar and Telipinu . Even the great weather god Tarḫunna gradually freezes. The only ones Ḫaḫḫima spared are Ḫašammeli's brothers , his father brothers . Finally, Ḫaḫḫima is subject to the spells of the grandmother ( Annanna wife) and has to give way.

literature

• Volkert Haas : The Hittite literature. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, pages 117 ff., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018877-6