Anu

THE CORPUS HELD BOTH ENDS OF A SWALLOWING AND NOT THE THING SWALLOWED. Alalu, Kumarbi and Teshub were all in the registry and Anu was not — the god who is bitten, whose curse sets the cycle running, and who fathers the god the cycle is about. NO CROSS-TRADITION EDGE to mesopotamian_anu: this is the Mesopotamian sky god's name inside a Hurrian succession myth, and which is a fact about how the myth was built rather than a relation between two beings.

Domains

• kingship in heaven

Relations

• overthrew: AlaluNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Alalu record.Reference treatment: in the ninth year of his reign Alalu was overthrown by his cup-bearer, Anu. (secondary)
• overthrown by: KumarbiNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: after another nine years, Anu was overthrown by his cup-bearer, Kumarbi, who bit off his penis and swallowed it. (secondary)
• father of: TeshubNon-symmetric, and DELIBERATELY NOT parentIds ON TESHUB, which is a pre-existing record this batch does not mutate. It is also the strangest paternity in the corpus: the father is bitten, the seed is swallowed, and the mother is the man who swallowed it.Reference treatment: Anu promises that from the seed thus implanted in Kumarbi five gods will be born, with Teshub the first mentioned and therefore the eldest. (secondary)

Sources

• Anu is the second king in heaven of the Hurrian succession myth, overthrown by Kumarbi, who bites off and swallows his genitals, and whose curse makes Kumarbi the bearer of Teshub.: Reference treatments of the Kumarbi cycle, of Alalu and of the Song of Emergence. (secondary)