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    VI.

    Kumarbi Cycle

    a) group of poems about Kumarbi

    b) Hurrian literary works, but written in Hittite (translations)

    c) texts = ca. 1400-1200 BCE

    VII. Song of Kumarbi (1st poem in kumarbi)

    a) succession myth (= rise and fall of Kumarbi)

    b) Kumarbi = Hurrian god assoc. with underworld

    c) succession: (no Creation)


    1. Alalu = king of gods (father of Kumarbi)
    2. Anu = binatural (Babylonian) other troughs Alalu (he fleas to the dark
    world)
    3. Kumarbi =over troughs anu (anu fleas up)

    b) castration of Anu (weakened and can´t reproduce)


    1. Kumarbi bitting off and swallows genitals
    2. Kumarbi is pregnant with gods from swallowing genitals
    3. incl. Tessub and Tasmisu

    c) Ea (another adopated god) Son of Anu


    1. serves as advisor/midwife to king Kumarbi
    2. Kumarbi thinks Tessub already born
    3. Kumarbi bites into stone
    4. tricked by Ea?
    5. Tessub hasn’t been born

    d) Tessub
    1. born from “good place” (his penis)
    2. overthrows Kumarbi (fragmentary)

    e) alternation between(1 father a, 2 father b , 3 son a, 4 son b


    1. underworld gods (1.Alalu, 3.Kumarbi)
    2. sky gods (2.Anu, 4.Tessub)

    VIII. Song of Ullikummi

    a) Kumarbi tries to overthrow Tessub (Kumarbi always fails)

    b) wants to use child to storm heaven


    c) Kumarbi impregnates(has sex w/) a rock

    d) Kumarbi goes to house of Sea God (has dinner)

    e) “stone child” = named Ullikummi

    f) “stone” baby given to Irsirra deities


    1. cameo by Ellil (say Ullikummi will be powerful)
    2. Mesopotamian wind/storm god

    g) Irsirra deities put Ullikummi on Ubelurri’s shoulder (grows up in the sea)


    1. Ubelurri = sky supporter (holds up the earth and sky)
    2. cf. Greek Atlas

    h) Istanu (sun god)


    1. spots Ullikummi growing (his head is out of the sea) growing fast
    2. tells Tessub and Tasmisu

    i) Sauska (god of sexual desire)


    1. assoc. with Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar
    2. sister of Tessub, Tasmisu
    3. adorns herself; sings
    4. attempts to seduce Ullikummi (she cant do it)
    5. great wave: “Ullikummi deaf/blind” (to Sauska?)

    j) Ullikummi reaches Kummiya (Tessub’s city in heaven)

    k) Hebat (sun goddess)


    1. = Tessub’s wife
    2. almost falls off roof

    l) Tessub and Tasmisu


    1. go to Apzuwa (= apsu)
    2. ask for Ea’s help

    m) Ea
    1. goes to Ubelurri
    2. cuts off Ullikummi with copper cutting tool (copper cutting tool was
    used cutting earth and sky)

    n) Tessub vs. Ullikummi (fragmentary) = combat myth

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