{"id":5913,"date":"2026-05-13T20:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/telipinu-vegetation-god-of-the-hittites\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:32:48","slug":"telipinu-vegetation-god-of-the-hittites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/telipinu-vegetation-god-of-the-hittites\/","title":{"rendered":"Telipinu: Vegetation God of the Hittites"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5913\" class=\"elementor elementor-5913 elementor-2616 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-hero e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-hero\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-hl e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-hl\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-htxt e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-htxt\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-h1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-h1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Telipinu, Hittite vegetation god and vanishing son<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-lead elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-lead\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Telipinu, Hittite <em>Telipinu\u0161<\/em>, is the son of the weather god <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/tarhunna-weather-god-of-the-hittites\/\">Tarhunna<\/a> and a central vegetation and fertility god of the Hittite <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span>. His disappearance in anger brings the world to the brink of famine, while his return restores order and growth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-pillc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-pillc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-pills elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-pills\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iwg-pill-row\"><span class=\"iwg-klasse-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"God of the Hittite tradition.\">God<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/hittite-anatolian-tarhunna-thousands-of-gods-and-protective-practice\/\" class=\"iwg-kultur-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Mythology of the Hittite tradition.\">Hittite<\/a><span class=\"iwg-tradition-badge\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/goetter_hethitisch_telipinu-683x1024.webp 683w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/goetter_hethitisch_telipinu-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/goetter_hethitisch_telipinu-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/goetter_hethitisch_telipinu.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s0h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s0h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Overview and brief profile<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s0c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s0c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s0t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s0t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Telipinu belongs to the younger, mythically active generation of the Hittite pantheon.<\/p><p>Unlike his parents <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/tarhunna-weather-god-of-the-hittites\/\">Tarhunna<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/arinna-sun-goddess-of-arinna\/\">sun goddess of Arinna<\/a>, he is a narrative figure par excellence; the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> named after him is one of the best-known pieces of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Epoch of Greek and Roman culture, roughly 800 BC to 600 AD.\" tabindex=\"0\">ancient<\/span> Near Eastern narrative literature and ranks alongside the Mesopotamian Dumuzi <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> and the Ugaritic Baal cycle.<\/p><p>In religious-studies terms, Telipinu represents the &#8216;vanishing god&#8217; (the <em>deus otiosus<\/em> type, though in a contingent rather than permanent variant). When he is angry and hides himself, the vegetation withers, the cattle no longer bear young, the gods themselves go hungry.<\/p><p>Only an elaborate calming <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An ordered sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span> brings him back. The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> is thus a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The academic study of God and the doctrines of a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">theological<\/span> reflection on the dependence of the world on divine goodwill and on the ritualized restoration of emotional balance.<\/p><p>Trevor Bryce, in <em>The Kingdom of the Hittites<\/em> (2005), showed that Telipinu had his most important <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of religious acts of veneration for a deity or sacred figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> site in the Hattic-Hittite city of Tawiniya (today probably north of Bo\u011fazkale).<\/p><p>In the imperial pantheon he did not stand at the very top, but he was indispensable as guarantor of the harvest and of fertility. Within the <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/hittite-anatolian-tarhunna-thousands-of-gods-and-protective-practice\/\">Hittite tradition<\/a>, he is one of the few gods whose mythical narrative was actively reactivated in ritual practice.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s1h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s1h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Name and etymology<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s1c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s1c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s1t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s1t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The name Telipinu is of Hattic origin. Volkert Haas, in <em>Geschichte der hethitischen <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The academic discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">Religion<\/span><\/em> (1994), reconstructed its probable meaning as &#8216;great son&#8217;; the Hattic element <em>-pinu<\/em> with the meaning &#8216;son&#8217; or &#8216;boy&#8217; is comparable, combined with the prefixoid element <em>teli-<\/em> in the sense of &#8216;strong, great&#8217;. In Hittite the form <em>Telipinu\u0161<\/em> appears with the typical nominative ending; the ending-free form Telipinu is customary in modern usage.<\/p><p>It is noteworthy that the name is also attested as a royal name: Telipinu the Great King (ca. 1525 to 1500 BC) gave Hittite history the famous Telipinu Proclamation on the succession to the throne.<\/p><p>This identity of names is not accidental: the king bore the name of the god as an expression of dynastic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The lived religious attitude and practice of a person.\" tabindex=\"0\">piety<\/span> and cultic attachment.<\/p><p>In Luwian, Telipinu appears more rarely and with less cultic significance; the Hattic-Hittite <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The passing on of knowledge and narratives across generations.\" tabindex=\"0\">tradition<\/span> shaped him firmly. In logographic spelling he frequently appears as DTelipinu, without a Sumerian logogram, which underlines his genuinely Anatolian origin. No Akkadian or Hurrian translation of the name has been handed down.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s2h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s2h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Description and iconography<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s2c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s2c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s2t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s2t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Telipinu is iconographically hard to pin down, because no clearly identifiable free-standing cult images survive. From the texts one can reconstruct that he appeared as a youthful god with a short kilt and a headdress with horns, holding a plant or a bundle of ears of grain in his hand.<\/p><p>The grain <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The study of pictorial content and its meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">iconography<\/span> links him with similar vegetation deities of Mesopotamia, above all with Dumuzi and Nisaba.<\/p><p>His <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to the divine and thereby withdrawn from everyday use.\" tabindex=\"0\">sacred<\/span> animal is the stag; in some texts he appears as &#8216;protective god of the field&#8217; with a stag as mount or companion.<\/p><p>The stag iconography also becomes visible in the Hattic-Hittite cult standards of Alaca H\u00f6y\u00fck, those ring-shaped standards with animal finials that date from the Middle <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Prehistoric epoch in which bronze was the most important metal for tools.\" tabindex=\"0\">Bronze Age<\/span> and can probably be assigned to Telipinu.<\/p><p>A special feature is his cult tree, the <em>eya<\/em> tree (probably an oak or pedunculate oak).<\/p><p>In the closing scene of the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span> of the Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span>, an <em>eya<\/em> tree is set up, on which a fleece hangs containing &#8216;fat, grain, wine, sheep and cattle, long years and sons&#8217;. This &#8216;Telipinu fleece&#8217; is one of the oldest attested cult objects of Hittite religion and probably a real item that was kept in his <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the veneration of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temples<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s3h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s3h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mythological narratives<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s3c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s3c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s3t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s3t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> (CTH 324) survives in several versions, the most important translated in the edition by Gary Beckman, <em>Hittite Myths<\/em> (1998).<\/p><p>The plot in outline: Telipinu falls into anger (the reason is not expressly given), pulls his right sandals over his left feet and vice versa, leaves land and gods behind, and falls asleep in a distant meadow. Thereupon all life withers: &#8216;The grain grew no more, cattle, sheep and people no longer reproduced.&#8217;<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/tarhunna-weather-god-of-the-hittites\/\">Tarhunna<\/a> searches for his son in vain, then the <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/arinna-sun-goddess-of-arinna\/\">sun goddess<\/a>, then an eagle that flies over the whole world. Finally a bee, sent by the mother goddess \u1e2aanna\u1e2banna, manages to find Telipinu.<\/p><p>The bee stings him in his hands and feet, which only intensifies his anger. Only through a complicated calming ritual, led by the goddess Kamru\u0161epa, is the anger removed from his interior and bound into <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A sign that stands representatively for a concept or meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">symbolic<\/span> vessels.<\/p><p>With Telipinu&#8217;s return the world blossoms again, and the Great King is placed under the <em>eya<\/em> tree, where the fleece of prosperity guarantees future fortune.<\/p><p>In terms of the history of religion, the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> is the Hittite example par excellence of a seasonal ritual with a seasonal myth; Volkert Haas interpreted it in detail as a spring ritual.<\/p><p>The theological structure of &#8216;anger, disappearance, search, return, prosperity&#8217; was identified by Beckman as the basic pattern of the Hittite &#8216;vanishing god&#8217; myths; the same structure is also found in myths about the disappearance of the sun god, of the storm gods, and even of the entire community of gods.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s4h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s4h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Cult and veneration<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s4c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s4c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s4t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s4t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Telipinu&#8217;s main cult site was Tawiniya, the Hattic homeland of the Hittites in northern Anatolia. In addition there were Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the veneration of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temples<\/span> in \u1e2aattu\u0161a, Han\u1e2bana and Durmitta. His festival calendar contained spring and autumn festivals; the most important was a spring festival in which the ritual retrieval of the god was re-enacted.<\/p><p>In the festival ritual a priestess appeared as the representative of the goddess Kamru\u0161epa and carried out the calming actions.<\/p><p>The rites were prescribed in detail: certain breads, sounds, incense, but above all a fleece and clay balls that symbolically absorbed Telipinu&#8217;s anger. The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Collective term for practices used to explore a divine will.\" tabindex=\"0\">divination<\/span> was accompanied by bird observation and extispicy in order to test the divine state.<\/p><p>The priestly organization of the cult is well documented; Jared Miller, in <em>Royal Hittite Instructions<\/em> (2013), edited texts that describe Telipinu&#8217;s daily temple staff and their duties.<\/p><p>These included purity regulations, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A gift to a deity to express thanks, request or veneration.\" tabindex=\"0\">offerings<\/span> of bread, beer, wine and occasionally animals, as well as the care of the cult statue. The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the veneration of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temple<\/span> possessed its own economic operations, fields and herds, whose yields served to supply the cult celebrations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s5h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s5h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Protective practice and the apotropaic<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s5c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s5c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s5t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s5t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The calming rituals for Telipinu were also used outside the great festival, above all in family crises, illnesses and anger between spouses.<\/p><p>Volkert Haas, in <em>Materia Magica et Medica Hethitica<\/em> (2003), compiled numerous texts in which the &#8216;anger-<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Magical or ecclesiastical exclusion; also the binding of a power through a formula.\" tabindex=\"0\">banishing<\/span>&#8216; scheme of the Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> is transferred to real conflict situations: the anger is enclosed in vessels, wrapped in a fleece, or handed over beneath the earth &#8216;to the sun goddess of the earth&#8217;.<\/p><p>The Hittite &#8216;old woman&#8217; (<em>\u1e2aAR.\u1e2aAR<\/em>) was a specialist for such rituals; she combined the art of healing, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Practices that seek to intervene in the course of things through special actions or formulas.\" tabindex=\"0\">magic<\/span> and priestly ritual practice in a single person.<\/p><p>Her activity is well documented and is among the best-researched aspects of Hittite religion. Known representatives are Anniwiyani, Ma\u0161tigga and Tunnawiya, whose rituals are handed down through the court library of \u1e2aattu\u0161a.<\/p><p>In an <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Warding off evil: of signs and objects intended to keep harmful influences away.\" tabindex=\"0\">apotropaic<\/span> manner, the <em>eya<\/em> tree with fleece was reproduced in smaller domestic contexts: a forked branch on which a piece of sheepskin was hung, with symbolic offerings such as wool, olive oil and bread.<\/p><p>These &#8216;prosperity <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A worn object to which a protective, misfortune-averting effect is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">amulets<\/span>&#8216; are mentioned several times in cuneiform inventories. The iWell Guard records this practice as historical and pertaining to the history of religion, not as a present-day protective recommendation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s6h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s6h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Parallels in other cultures<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s6c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s6c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s6t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s6t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The parallel in the history of religion to the Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> is clearly the Dumuzi <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> of Mesopotamia, in which the young vegetation god descends into the underworld and returns in spring.<\/p><p>The Ugaritic Baal cycle (see <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/phoenicians-and-carthage-baal-tanit-and-the-tradition-of-protection\/\">Phoenician tradition<\/a>) contains a structurally very similar scheme, with the dying of Baal after his fight against <a href=\"\/en\/mot-phoenician-god-of-death\/\">Mot<\/a> and his revival through <a href=\"\/en\/anat-phoenician-war-goddess\/\">Anat<\/a>.<\/p><p>Unlike Dumuzi, however, Telipinu does not die; he is merely angry and gone. His anger is an independent theological category and has no exact counterpart in the neighbouring pantheons.<\/p><p>Volkert Haas interpreted this as a specifically Anatolian <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The scholarly doctrine of God and of the faith of a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">theology<\/span> of emotional control. The anger is not morally judged but understood as a dangerous yet transformable energy that can be banished through <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span>.<\/p><p>In the Greek sphere, Demeter myths with the disappearance of the goddess after the abduction of Persephone recall the Telipinu narrative; scholars such as <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"German scholar of religious studies (1931 to 2015); principal work Greek Religion (1977).\" tabindex=\"0\">Walter Burkert<\/span> have discussed possible cultural contact routes without postulating a direct dependence. Mary Bachvarova, in <em>From Hittite to Homer<\/em> (2016), examined the mechanisms of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The passing on of knowledge and narratives across generations.\" tabindex=\"0\">transmission<\/span> in detail.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s7h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s7h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Present-day reception and research<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s7c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s7c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s7t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s7t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> has been standard material of ancient Near Eastern religious research since the edition by Emil Forrer (1922). Important more recent studies exist by Gary Beckman, Harry Hoffner, Volkert Haas and Piotr Taracha.<\/p><p>Hoffner, in his standard work <em>Hittite Myths<\/em> (with Beckman, 2nd ed. 1998), presented a translation that remains without competition to this day.<\/p><p>In popular reception Telipinu is little known; in Turkish school textbooks he is occasionally mentioned as an example of Anatolian <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the handed-down divine narratives of a culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">mythology<\/span>. In the logo of the Hittitology Congress at \u00c7orum there appear symbols that can also be assigned to Telipinu. A spiritual revival in the neo-<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Synonymous with heathen; belonging to a pre-Christian religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">pagan<\/span> sense is absent.<\/p><p>In religious-studies terms, Telipinu is today present above all in comparative studies on seasonal myths, the theology of emotion, and ancient Near Eastern ritual practice.<\/p><p>Current research priorities lie in the detailed investigation of the calming ritualism, in the diffusion of the &#8216;vanishing god&#8217; <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A recurring thematic element in art or narrative.\" tabindex=\"0\">motif<\/span>, and in the question of how the Hittite variant relates to the Mesopotamian Dumuzi <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> and to the West Semitic Baal cycle.<\/p><p>The iWell Guard regards the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> as a historical testimony pertaining to the history of religion, without reference to modern healing promises.<\/p><p>In comparative Anatolian studies, too, Telipinu occupies a special role, because he is the clearest example of the adoption of a Hattic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> into the Hittite imperial pantheon.<\/p><p>The linguistic investigations of H. Craig Melchert and Petra Goedegebuure have shown that the Hattic word forms were preserved in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the religious acts of veneration for a deity or holy figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> right into the late imperial texts, a sign of the ritual conservatism that was characteristic of the Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the religious acts of veneration for a deity or holy figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span>.<\/p><p>In the festival calendar Hattic songs were sung, Hattic formulas were spoken and Hattic implements were used, long after the Hattic language had died out as a vernacular.<\/p><p>The iWell Guard records this layering in the history of language as a finding remarkable in religious-studies terms: in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the religious acts of veneration for a deity or holy figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> a language and a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The scholarly doctrine of God and of the faith of a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">theology<\/span> survived that had already vanished from everyday life.<\/p><p>A further line of research investigates the ritual-typological relationship between Telipinu calming and Mesopotamian <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A linguistic ritual intended to summon or bind a power.\" tabindex=\"0\">incantation<\/span> practice. The transitions between &#8216;<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span>&#8216; and &#8216;<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span>&#8216; are especially fluid in the Hittite material; the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> is actualized in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span>, the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span> lives from the mythical model.<\/p><p>This double structure has been addressed again and again in <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">religious studies<\/span>, from Gerardus van der Leeuw to more recent structuralists, and finds in the Telipinu complex one of its most impressive examples.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s8h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s8h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Literature and sources<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s8c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s8c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-s8t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-s8t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The following selection brings together the most important editions and studies on the Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> and its <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the religious acts of veneration for a deity or holy figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span>. It is intended as an entry point for a deeper engagement with the material.<\/p><p>The edition by Beckman and Hoffner in particular provides a complete English translation of the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> in its best-preserved version, while Volkert Haas unpacks the contextual material of the calming rituals. Jared Miller&#8217;s edition of the royal instructions offers insight into the temple organization.<\/p><p>Anyone who wishes to study the Hittite &#8216;old woman&#8217; and her anger-banishing rituals will find in Haas the most important text editions with German translation and extensive commentary.<\/p><p>Piotr Taracha&#8217;s synthesis is the most current overall account of the Anatolian religions of the 2nd millennium BC and also contains a concise placement of Telipinu within the Hattic-Hittite <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span>. An important supplement is offered by Itamar Singer in his <em>Hittite Prayers<\/em>, which contain several Telipinu invocations from the festival material.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2d7dc006 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp2d7dc006\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2aac6c59 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp2aac6c59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The myth of the vanished Telipinu<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2eeda6dd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cp2eeda6dd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp243e0126 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp243e0126\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The best-known Hittite text about Telipinu tells of his disappearance. Enraged, without the text naming the precise occasion, the god leaves his place.<\/p><p>He departs in a state of anger, puts the right shoe on the left foot and the left on the right, and disappears into the wilderness, where he lies down exhausted and falls asleep.<\/p><p>The consequences are devastating. The text describes with great vividness how life comes to a standstill. The smoke is stifled in the hearth, the sheep and cattle reject their young, the grain no longer thrives, gods and people starve. Even the sun god holds a feast, but no one is satisfied.<\/p><p>The gods search for Telipinu. The weather god and the eagle search in vain. Finally the mother goddess Hannahanna sends out a bee, which finds the sleeping god, stings him on his hands and feet, and purifies him with wax in order to wake him.<\/p><p>The awakened Telipinu is at first even angrier than before and causes further misfortune. Only a purification ritual, carried out by the goddess of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Practices that seek to intervene in the course of things through special actions or formulas.\" tabindex=\"0\">magic<\/span> Kamrushepa, calms him. His anger is symbolically banished into vessels of the underworld whose lids do not open again. Telipinu returns, and life resumes.<\/p><p>The text is so significant because it is a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> that was directly embedded in a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span>. It belongs to the genre of vanishing <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> myths, of which there are several in Hittite writings, and it was apparently recited at rituals intended to restore a disturbed state.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2fd45520 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp2fd45520\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2cbec1a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp2cbec1a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Telipinu myth and the mugawar ritual<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp27653fca e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cp27653fca\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp258e04c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp258e04c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> of the vanished Telipinu is not an independent literary work but part of a ritual. The clay tablets on which it has been handed down contain, besides the narrative, explicit ritual instructions. This combination of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> and <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A fixed, recurring religious action.\" tabindex=\"0\">rite<\/span> makes the text a key example of Hittite religious practice.<\/p><p>The associated <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span> belongs to the genre of the <em>mugawar<\/em>, which one translates as <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A linguistic ritual intended to summon or bind a power.\" tabindex=\"0\">invocation<\/span> or evocation, a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span> intended to call back a withdrawn <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span>.<\/p><p>In the Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span>, honey and butter, figs, olive oil and other substances are used, whose sweet, calming or purifying quality is meant to dissolve the god&#8217;s anger.<\/p><p>Paths are strewn with fine oil so that the god gently retraces his steps along them. An evergreen tree, the <em>eya<\/em> tree, is set up, on which a fleece hangs that symbolizes fat, grain, wine and the long life of the king.<\/p><p>Research mostly understands such rituals as analogy-based <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Practices that seek to intervene in the course of events through special actions or formulas.\" tabindex=\"0\">magical<\/span> action. What the gods achieved in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span>, namely to find and appease the angry <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span>, is re-enacted in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span> in order to avert concrete distress, such as a drought, a plague or the extinguishing of royal well-being.<\/p><p>Comparable disappearance myths are also handed down about the weather god and other deities, which shows that this was a flexible ritual scheme into which various deities could be inserted. The Telipinu <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> is the best-preserved version and thus the central testimony for this Hittite ritual genre.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp27a4353e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp27a4353e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2e0338b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp2e0338b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Telipinu between vegetation god and protective deity<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2e1e8529 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cp2e1e8529\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp28aadeba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp28aadeba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The question of what kind of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> Telipinu actually is has been answered differently in research. An older, long influential interpretation saw in him a vegetation god.<\/p><p>James George <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"James George Frazer (1854-1941); British anthropologist; main work The Golden Bough (1890-1915).\" tabindex=\"0\">Frazer<\/span>, in his work <em>The Golden Bough<\/em>, had postulated a worldwide pattern of dying and returning vegetation gods, and the vanishing Telipinu, whose absence brings growth to a halt, seemed to fit well into this scheme.<\/p><p>More recent Hittitology has become more cautious here. Telipinu does not disappear regularly in the yearly cycle but out of anger, and his disappearance is not a death. The text binds the events not to a fixed calendar date but to situations of distress.<\/p><p>Moreover, in the god lists and in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the religious acts of veneration for a deity or holy figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> Telipinu is graspable above all as the son of the weather god and as a protective deity, with his own temples in several Hittite cities. He bears the traits of a god responsible for flourishing, without therefore being a pure personification of the vegetation.<\/p><p>The disappearance myths can be understood more precisely as narratives about the consequences of divine anger and about the restoration of disturbed order. Volkert Haas and others have pointed out that the scheme of the vanishing god provided a model for dealing with crises.<\/p><p>Telipinu is therefore less a nature myth in Frazer&#8217;s sense than a god whose story exemplarily shows how Hittite religion thought about the relationship of divine anger, cosmic disturbance and ritual reconciliation. The discussion about his classification is a good example of how religious-studies models of interpretation changed in the course of the 20th century.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-lit e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-lit\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-lith elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-lith\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Literature (selection)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-litc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-litc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-litt elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-litt\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><ul><li>Volkert Haas: <em>Geschichte der hethitischen Religion<\/em> (Leiden 1994)<\/li><li>Gary Beckman: <em>Hittite Myths<\/em> (SBL 1998)<\/li><li>Harry A. Hoffner: <em>Hittite Myths<\/em> (with Beckman, SBL 1998)<\/li><li>Volkert Haas: <em>Materia Magica et Medica Hethitica<\/em> (Berlin 2003)<\/li><li>Piotr Taracha: <em>Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia<\/em> (Wiesbaden 2009)<\/li><li>Jared Miller: <em>Royal Hittite Instructions<\/em> (SBL 2013)<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgkw2-add-telipinu e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgkw2-add-telipinu\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgkw2-add-telipinu-t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgkw2-add-telipinu-t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Telipinu is the <em>Hittite<\/em> vegetation god and <em>vanishing<\/em> son of the weather god, whose anger lets fertility be extinguished and whose return is achieved in a famous <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A handed-down narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> through a bee and a sacrificial ritual.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-kwd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-kwd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-kwdc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-kwdc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-kwdt elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-kwdt\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Related key terms: Telipinu Hittites vegetation god eya tree Kamru\u0161epa anger Tawiniya.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-cc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-cc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" id=\"iwg-cc-telipinu\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-ccinner e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-ccinner\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-telipinu-cch elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-telipinu-cch\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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