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.