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The God Collectors: Hittite Conceptions of the Divine

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Abstract

Building on an earlier article on Mesopotamian conceptions of the divine (Hundley 2013a), this piece turns to the complex world of Hittite deities and offers a synthetic analysis with Mesopotamia as a conversation partner. While many commonalities emerge, the Hittite divine world is also distinct in important ways. Most notably, while Mesopotamian gods, especially Marduk and Assur and before them Enlil and Ninurta, tend to collect attributes, the Hittites themselves collect gods, proudly boasting of the thousand gods of Ḫatti. Likewise, Hittite deities tend to overlap without redundancy, such that each overlapping (weather) god is an independent actor with an essential role to play, whose absence could signal the dissolution of order. The article also posits various modern analogs like franchises, which although imperfect, help the modern mind to grasp the ancient complexity.


Note

I would like to thank the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for providing me the time and resources to write this article and Jared Miller for his helpful comments on an earlier draft. All shortcomings of course are my own. Bibliographical abbreviations follow those of CHD, CAD, RlA and SBL.


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