Anu
Hurrian · deity · mythic · deity
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