Telipinu

Hattic-Hittite agricultural/fertility god, son of the storm-god Taru and sun-goddess Estan; central to the disappearing-god myth resolved by a bee and Kamrusepa.

Parentage

• Estan

Domains

• agriculture fertility

Powers

• Withdraw in anger and wither all crops and offspring
• Return appeased to restore vegetation and fruitfulness

Epithets

• the vanished god

Sources

• Hoffner, Hittite Myths (2nd ed., 1998)