Telipinu
Hittite · deity · late bronze age · deity
Hittite god of agriculture, son of the Storm-god and the Sun-goddess of Arinna. The archetypal 'vanishing god': his angry withdrawal blights the land until he is found and soothed, the central myth of the Hittite disappearing-deity ritual.
Parentage
Domains
- agriculture and fertility
- vegetation
Powers
- Grant fertility to crops, herds, and people
- Withdraw in anger and wither the land
Relations
- father: Tarhunna
- mother: Sun-goddess of Arinna
- sibling: Mezzulla
Sources
- Telipinu Myth (CTH 324)
- Hoffner, Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (1998), pp. 14-20