Tarhunz

Luwian weather-god and head of the pantheon; chariot drawn by horses.

Domains

• storm
• kingship of gods
• agriculture fertility

Powers

• Drive a horse-drawn chariot hurling bundled thunderbolts
• Ripen the vineyards and grain of the land

Epithets

• Tarhunzas of the Vineyard
• Tarhunzas piha??a??i
• Tarhunzas tuwarsas

Relations

• equated with: Teshub
• interpretatio: Baalshamin
• equated with: Trqqas

Sources

• Hutter, Aspects of Luwian Religion (in Melchert ed., The Luwians, 2003)