Tarḫunna
c. 1650 BCE – 1180 BCEattested
Ḫattuša, Anatolia
- Hittite
Storm god of the Hittites, who drove a bull-drawn chariot and whose defeat of the serpent Illuyanka was recited at the new-year festival. Treaties were sworn before him and expected to hold.
Known for
- the storm as sovereignty
- slaying the serpent Illuyanka
- the divine witness to treaties
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.