At the time also with the logograms NIN.URTA and URAS started being used

for Tasmisu, brother and vizier of Tessub (see 3.2.1 & 5). There is no proof, however,

Of any connection between Suwaliyat and the Storm-god in the Old Hittite period.

The storm god’s inseparable companion was Wasezzili/Wasezzasu. According to

One text describing a cult-related joumey of a prince to the north of the country, to

the neighborhood of the cities Zalpa and Nerik, Wasezzili was called a ‘li 0. 1 T among

the gods (in the sense of ‘hero’). 281 The same text mentions a vizier of the Storm-

God whom the gods knew as the Storm-god of the Countryside. 282 Unfortunately, it

Does not give Ms name. There surely existed other categories of storm-gods, such

As. for example, storm-gods of the forest/grove appearing in later texts (3.2.3).

The connection between the storm-gods and the sacred mountains, the worship

Of which was probably related to the character of Anatolian landscape, is well evi-

denced. 28 ' 3 The storm-gods were believed to prefer the mountain tops, presumably

Because storm clouds bringing heavy rains gathered above such mountains. The king

Was invested by the Storm-god to rule the land, but the mountains with forests and

Wild game remained in the power of gods, more strictly speaking, the Storm-god.

According to one myth, the Throne-goddess Halmasuit allegedly lived in the moun

Tains (see 3.1.1). The mountains in the vicinity, which were male deities and ocea«

Sionaily had anthropomorphic Images, were worshiped in each of the more

Kammenhuber 1991. Cf. also Archi 2004b.

VBoT 58 i 29f.; translated by Hoffner 1998: 28.

279 Güterbock 1961a.

280 See Laroche 1946 -1947: 27, 60, 95; Otten 1959b: 35ff.; Kümmel 1967: 86f.; Nakamura 2002:

With references; Archi 2006: 155.

KUB 8.41 ii 4’ff., Neu 198(3: 183 (no. 109). Cf. also Laroche 1947: 187f.

282 KUB 8.41 ii 10! ff., Neu 1980: 183 (no. 109).

283 Gönnet 1968: 11Off. Cf. also Haas 1982: 470..: Börker-Klähn 1989; Lombard! 1997.

284 Lombard! 1996.

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Important towns; their temples stood either in the town or on the mountain itself,

in the latter ease not at the very top, but rather on a lower-lying siope." 8S

Springs were also worshiped as goddesses. They were considered either consorts

Or concubines of the storm- and mountain-gods. In one of the towns in the north, the

wife of a local Storm-god was Tahattanuiti, who was called among the gods ‘Mother

286

Of the Spring, Queen/ The name Timmeti, which was given among the gods to Ms

Concubine Tasiraetti (probably also a spring-goddess), is written with the logogram

IST AR, indicating her place among the love goddesses." 8 ' The logogram ISTAR also

Conceals, for example, the name of a spring-goddess, concubine of the Mountain-god

Daha(ya) or eise the Storm-god of Ziplanda, for whom Daha(ya) was a favorite resting

Place. 288 According to one Middle Hittite text from Rusjakli/Sarissa, conceming the

Cult of the Storm-god of Ziplanda in Hurma, Ms concubine there was E/Anzili, whose

289

Name is also written with the logogram ISTAR, Anzili was also the concubine of the

Storm-god of Sarissa. In general, the logogram ISTAR was used to denote the names

Of various young goddesses, wives or concubines of local storm- and mountain-gods.

Goddesses of this category are referred to by the logogram D NIN.E.GAL (‘Lady

Of the Palace’), too. By no means does the Dotation testify to the presence of the

Syro-Mesopotamian goddess Ninegal in the Old Hittite pantheon." 90 One of the god

desses of this kind was the ‘Lady of the Palace’ appearing among the deities con

Nected with the Storm-god of Nerik (see 3.1.1); she can be identified with his concu

bine Tesiini, known from later texts. This Hattian name/epithet was very populär

Among the concubines of storm-gods in the northern territories. In nearby Liljzina,

The concubine of the local Storm-god was called Tasimi. 291 The same name is evi-

292

Denced also in the form Tasim(m)et(i)/Tim(m)et(i) (see above).

Popko 1999c: 99ff.

288 KUB 8.41 ii i'ft. Neu 1980: 183 (no. 109). Cf. Laroche 1947: 187f,

KUB 8.41 ii 7’iT., Neu 1980: 183 (no. 109); cf. also Haas 1994a: 446f,

Popko 1994: 3Sf,

289 KuT 53, G. Wilhelm apud Müller-Karpe 2002a: 345. In this Connection, Wilhelm (p. 350) cites