85 R. T. O'Callaghan, Aram Naharaim (Rome, 1948), Analecta Orientalia #26,

p. 48.

86 I. M. Diakonoff, "Evidence on the Ethnic Division of the Hurrians", in Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, M. A. Morrison, ed. (Winona Lake, Indiana, 1981), p. 82.

87 One myth, known as the "Song of the Kingship in Heaven", describes three aeons of succession before the triumph of Tessub, the weather god. First Alalu was king in heaven, served by Anu. Anu overthrew Alalu and was served by Kumarbi. Then Kumarbi overthrows Anu and castrates him: "(Kumarbi) bit his (Anu's) loins, and his 'manhood' united with Kumarbi's insides like bronze (results from the union of copper and tin). When Kumarbi had swallowed the 'manhood' of Anu, he rejoiced and laughed out loud. Anu turned around and spoke to Kumarbi: 'Are you rejoicing within yourself because you have swallowed my manhood? Stop rejoicing within yourself! I have placed inside you a burden. First, I have impregnated you with the noble Storm God (=Tessub). Second, I have impregnated you with the irresistible Tigris River. Third, I have impregnated you with the the noble Tasmisu", H. A. Hoffner, Jr., Hittite Myths (Atlanta, 1990), pp. 40-41. G. Wilhelm, The Hurrians (Wiltshire, England, 1989) pp. 59-60 writes: "There is no doubt about the parallels between the Hurrian myth of succession and the Theogony of Hesiod, the Greek poet living in Boeotia in about 700 B.C.. Just as in the Hurrian myth Anu, the god of heaven, is castrated by his son Kumarbi, to be deposed in his turn by the weather god Teshup, so Kronos becomes ruler of the gods after the castration of his father, Uranus, god of heaven, only to be usurped by Zeus, the thunder god".

88 Hoffner, pp. 48-52, the "Song of Hedammu".

89 Ibid., pp. 53-54.

90 Ibid., p. 55. On the location of Mount Hazzi, Wilhelm writes: "...because of the reference to Mount Hazzi, we must imagine Ullikummi growing out of the Gulf of Iskenderun", p. 61 and "In Ugarit, Mount Sapan (ancient name: mons Casius, now Jabal al-Aqra, on the mouth of the Orontes) was thought to be the abode of Ba'al. In the Hittite-Hurrian world it was deified under the name of Hazzi and became one of Tessub's satellites, along with the still unidentified Mount Namni", p. 50. But see Diakonoff "Evidence", p. 81 n. 17: "Ha-zi, Ha-az-ai is the Hurrian name of Mount Sapanu which means 'North'; presumably that is also the meaning of the Hurrian word". If Diakonoff's presumption is correct, then the mountain of Hazzi may have been located north of Lake Van, perhaps Suphan whose legends and even name may have migrated to the southwest. It is noteworthy that early Greek mythographers placed the destruction of Typhoeus (whom some equate with Ullikummi, W. Burkert, "Oriental and Greek Mythology", pp. 16, 20) in the "land of the Arimi".

91 Hoffner, pp. 56-57.

92 Ibid., p. 59; For parallels to the Greek myths of Typhoes, see W. Burkert, "Oriental and Greek Mythology", pp. 19-24; for Caucasian parallels, see the same author's "Von Ullikummi zum Kaukasus: Die Felsgeburt des Unholds", Wurzburger Jahrbucher N. F., 5(1979) pp. 253-61.

93 Hoffner, p. 62.

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