Kasku
Hattic · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Hattic moon-god ('moon'); subject of the bilingual Hattic-Hittite myth 'The Moon that Fell from Heaven', where the storm-god Taru drenches him with rain.
Domains
- moon
Powers
- Fall from the sky into the gate of the marketplace
- Guarantor of oaths as the moon in heaven
Epithets
- Kab alternative reading of the Hattian moon-god's nameDaniel Schwemer's proposed alternate reading, noted in scholarship on the Hattic moon-god (secondary)
Relations
- equated with: ArmaReciprocal of luwian_arma.equated-with — In the bilingual 'Moon that Fell from Heaven' myth the Hattic Kasku corresponds to Anatolian Arma behind the moon-god logogram. Same lunar slot; Kasku's myth of falling from heaven is Hattic-specific.V. Haas, Geschichte der hethitischen Religion (1994) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Hoffner, Hittite Myths (2nd ed., 1998) (secondary)