Alalu

Primordial king of heaven in the Hurrian-Hittite Kingship in Heaven cycle: he reigns nine years with Anu as his cupbearer, is deposed by Anu, and flees down to the Dark Earth. Kumarbi, his seed, later unseats Anu in turn — the generational-overthrow pattern that reaches Greek myth as Uranus–Cronus–Zeus.

Children

• Kumarbi

Domains

• primordial kingship of heaven

Epithets

• the first king in heaven

Sources

• Song of Kumarbi / Kingship in Heaven (CTH 344)
• Hoffner, Hittite Myths (1998)
• CTH 344 i 5-24