Of Karahna appears among the most important Hittite gods. One of the gods of Ka

rahna was another Storm-god bearing the Luwian epithet piha(i)mi ‘hurling liglit-

ning.’ The following gods, some of them from nearby Samuh.a,' 1 “" were worshiped

during local festivals: Sun-goddess of Arinna, [..., Sun-goddess of SamuJha, Hebat-

Musuni, [ ], sacred (washazza) D LAMMA. [.... °LAMMA] of the Throne,!j Iv\MiViA of

Karahna, ^LAMMA of the Spear, D LAMMA of the Quiver, [ ], Storm-god of the Camp,

Sulinkatte (D U.GUR), ZABABA, Pirwa, Askasepa, [Queen] (^[MUNUS.LUGAL]),

Halki, Telipinu, Moon-god, Antaliya, [Imjmarni-deities, DINGIE.MAI;!, Gulses, Ha-

[samijli, gods of Hasikasnawanta, IJasala river, Sauska of the Countryside, Sauska

Of Tameninga/Tapinika, primeval gods, Abara, Mt. Za, Great Mountain, Mt. Tapala,

Storm-god of Ziplanda, Storm-god of the Gate.’’ 24 At A(n)galiya near Karahna there

Was a grove with a /juiaosi-sanctuary, in which the Sun-goddess of the Earth was

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worshiped among others. " Ai-guing in favor of Karahna’s importance in the state

Cult is the fact that new temples for the Storm-god of Heaven and the Sun-goddess

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of Arinna were erected in the city in the second half of the thirteenth Century BC.‘

Ethnie change in many provincial towns led to both the old and the new gods

Being worshiped. A certain ritual from the early Empire period contains a list of

Offerings made to gods worshiped in a town of unknown name. Standing at the head

Of the pantheon were the Storm-god and Mamma, but the latter part of the list

Comprises mostly Luwian deities: Sun-god and Kamrusepa, tutelary LAMMA god

And Ala, Telipinu, Maliya along with her companion gods, Earth, and the Sun-god-

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Dess of the Earth.

At Ankuwa,’ >2 ° the cult of Hurrian and Luwian deities was introduced along-

Side the gods of the traditionai pantheon with. Katahha at the head. In the Muwat-

Talli II prayer (CTH 381), Katahha. Storm-god of the Rain and Sauska of the

Cf. Barjamovic 2005: 152: “Sam.uha has to be loeated dose to Karahna on a route from. Hurrama.”

524 KU ß 25.32+KUB 27.20 i 24 ’ ff., Dingo! - Darga 1970; McMahon 1991: 58ff.; cf also del Monte --

Tischler 1978: 178; Yoshida 1996: 208.

525 KUB 25.32+KUB 27.20 iii 41’ff., McMahon 1991: 72f.

526 KUB 38,12 ii 14, Taggar-Cohen 2ÖÖ6a: 22,

527 KUB 43,23 rev. 23! ff,; Haas 1988d: 136f.

See now Crasso 2005; 2006. A herd of 50 oxen and 1000 sheep was driven from Ankuwa for the

Gxeat festival of Telipinu in Hanhana (KUB 51.1 i 3 with its duplieate KUB 53.2- i. 4f., Haas

Jakob-Rost 1984: 40, 44, 47), which argues against the identification of Ankuwa of the Hittite

texts with Amkuwa/Ali§ar Höyük.

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Hittite Anatolia

The Empire Period

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Countryside appear as the chief divinities in the local pantheon. In tlie reign of

Tutljaliya IV, on the last-but-one day of the AN.DA’H.SUM festival celebrated in the

Temple of Katahha, offerings were made to different manifestations of Tessub (in-

cluding Tessub of Heaven of Ankuwa) and of bis eonsort Hebat, as well as deities

belonging to the kaluti of the Hurrian Storm-god: Tasmisu/Suwaliyat (" J URAS),

Kumarbi (^Halki), Sun-god, [Moon-god] and gods of Nikkal (°NIN.GAL); also like

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In Karahna, to the deities of Samuha: Abara, Sauska, Sauska of the Countryside.

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The Sun-goddess of the Earth was also worsfaiped at Ankuwa.

A list of twelve gods worshiped in the form of huwasi -stelae during the great

Festival of Telipinu in the towns of Hanhana and Kasha betrays the mixed nature of

The pantheon of Hanhana. As in Durmitta, Telipinu stood at its head, paired here

With the goddess Hatepinu/IJatepuna. Katahha was prominent in it. Other listed

divinities include: [Sun-goddess], Storm-god, Sanhupiya, LAMMA, [Sulinkatte],

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Ammamma, [Hasgala?], Hapayulla, and Sat(u)wanei/Sal(a/i)wanes of the Gate.

An important task taken up by Hattusili III after his reconquest of the northern

Territories and continued by his son Tuthaliya IV, was to reconstruct local cults that

Had become forgotten during the more than two hundred years of Kaskean occupa-

Tion. The Situation is illustrated very well by the fate of the two most important