Wurunkatte

Wurunkatte is a Hattic and Hittite god of war. His name means "king of the land" in Hattic . It is also written with the accadogram ZABABA .

Wurunkatte is one of the deities who received offerings at the Hittite KI.LAM festival . This may be due to the fact that Wurunkatte, like the throne goddess Ḫalmašuit , is associated with the ideology of kingship in Hattic traditions. In a hattic list of gods, Wurunkatte directly follows the god Telipinu (hatt. Talipinu) and comes before the goddess Ḫalmašuit (hatt. Ḫanwašuit).

literature

• Piotr Taracha : Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05885-8 .
• Volkert Haas , Heidemarie Koch : Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-51695-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 48.
2. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 241.
3. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 39 f.
4. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 41, 48.
5. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 50.