KBo 22.246 iii 21’ff. (with its duplicate KUB 42.103 iv): “18 festivals of the Storm-god of Halab,

melumng the festival of p[ud]aha, festival of kiyarra, festival of satlassa, festival of na[ ], festival

of fruit, festival of the spring, festival of Mt. Tatta, festival of (the god) Tenu, two festivals of

‘setting up figurines’.” See Soucek - Siegelovä 1974: 48f.; Tremouille 1997: 93 11, 319; Schwemer

2001; 497.

Haas 1994a: 656 n. 113.

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3. Hittite Anatoliä

Hattu sa m the sanctuaries of the Storm-god of Hai ab in Salma, Tapathina and Pak-

Kurunuwa, show that the worship of the Storm-god of Halab penetrated into local

Cults and was introduced into local calendars of agrarian festivals connected with

, gio

The agricultural cycle,

The annual hisuwa festival ensured the prosperity of the ruler and his family. 811

It cultivated the memory of the roots of the dynasty. According to a new redaction

Based on original tablets brought from Kizzuwatna and written down, for queen

Pudutepa on thirteen new ones, the festival lasted nine days and was addressed to

The gods of Kummani: Tessub Manuzi, his consort Lelluri, Ishara, Allani, the two

Nubadig gods from the localities of Pibid(a) (pibithi) and Zalman(a) / Zalmat (zal-

Mathi), and the goddess Maliya. The gods of Kummani were worshiped also during

Ceremonies for Tessub and Hebat celebrated as pari of the dynastic cult.

Lite the hisuwa festival, the scenario of most, if not all the festivals for Tessub

And Hebat, as well as other gods of the Hurrian-Kizzuwatnean pantheon, celebrated

In Hattusa and other towns of central and northern Anatolia, rnay have been model-

Ed on the ritual tradition practiced in Kummani / Kizzuwatna, the home of the

Imperial Hittite dynasty, This theory is confirmed by the festival for the Human

Storm-god (called here by the Hittite or Luwian name of Tarhuna or Tarhunta,

ISKUK-as), celebrated at Sulupassi and Sapinuwa in the early Empire period

(under Tuifctaliya III?). The description of the festival infbrms that the Organization

Was inspired by an older tablet from Kizzuwatna. 812

The local spring festivals during which the AN.DAH.StJM plant, 813 Symbol of

Nature awakening to new life, was deposited in templee of gods are first attested

Frorn the very beginning of the Empire period 814 In the most important centers,

These ceremonies were included in the state cult by the presence of the king, queen

Or crown prince, and afterwards, due to a policy of concentrating cults around the

810 KUB 27.15 iv 22’f„ Soucek - Siegelovä 1974: 44, 50; Haas 1994a: 556; Schwemer 2001:

498.

Dincjol 1989; Salvini - Wegtier 1984; Wegner - Salvini 1991; Haas 1994a: 848fr. Cf. also Dingol

Tremouille 1997: 102ff; 1998: 1999b; 2000b; Groddek 2001b; 2004c.

CTH 479.3, Tremouille 2002b; 2004a.

813 CAD A 112f. (“a bulbous spring vegetable,” written SUM.TUR ‘little onion’); Beal 2002b: 74 with

n. 114 igarlic?). Differently, Färber 1991 (Tennel'); and Cornelius 1965 {'crocus/saffron’), followed

By Hoffner 1974: 1091, Haas 2003a: 346f, and others.

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capital, this led to the emergenee of the great festival of the AN.DAH.STJM plant. 0 '“'

It was not until the rule of Suppiluliuma I that ceremonies formerly celebrated

Independentlv for particular gods of Hattusa and the nearby towns were incorpor

Ated into the program of the great state festival celebrated for the Sun-goddess of

Arinna and the gods of Haiti.

This festival lasted 35 days at first, but was later extended to 38 and even 40 days

In the times of Tuthaliya IV, The king visited sanctuaries of the most important

State gods, especially the Sun-goddess of Arinna, situated in nearby localities and

Attended the temples and sacred enclosures in Hattusa itself. He first went to Ta-

Hurpa famous for its sanctuary of the Sun-goddess, fhen returned to Hattusa via

Tippuwa. In the days that followed the kursa-god Zitfrariya visited Arinna and Tawi-

Niya: his retura to the Capital initiated celebrations in the temple of Halki, in the

House of the intendant for the Storm-god of Ziplanda, and in the temple of the Sun-

goddess of Arinna on Büyükkale. After that the ruler took the AN.DAH.StJM plant