Alalu
Hurrian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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
Domains
- primordial kingship of heaven
Epithets
- the first king in heaven The primeval king of the gods, served then overthrown by Anu, who fled to the dark earthSong of Kingship in Heaven (Kumarbi cycle) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Song of Kumarbi / Kingship in Heaven (CTH 344) (primary); Hoffner, Hittite Myths (1998) (secondary)
- deposition by Anu: CTH 344 i 5-24 (primary)