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Nerik: Ancient Life in the Kaska Zone
Nerik is one of the northernmost cities established by the Bronze Age Hittites in Anatolia (Turkey). Surrounded by unforgiving landscapes...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 263 min read
Tumanna: Ancient Black Sea Kingdom
Tumanna is a northern Anatolian settlement of the ancient world. Embracing the south coast of the Black Sea, in the late Bronze Age...
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Jan 254 min read
Pala, Anatolia - Bronze Age Mysteries
Pala is a Bronze Age culture, located in northern Anatolia (Turkey) near the mountainous regions by the Black Sea. In the eastern...
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Jan 254 min read
Kamrushepa: Hittite Goddess of Magic
Kamrushepa (Kamrušepa) is a Luwian and Hittite goddess of medicine and magic. She's the wife of Sun God Tiwaz and plays an important role...
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Jan 243 min read
Pirwa - Horse God of Ancient Hittites
Pirwa is a horse deity of the Hittites and Luwians in ancient Anatolia (today's Turkey). He's also called Perwa or Peruwa. Considered a...
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Jan 242 min read
Ebony - Precious Wood of Ancients
Ebony is a coveted item of trade for thousands of years, in the ancient world still in demand today. A solid black hardwood, ebony is...
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Jan 236 min read
Zagros Mountains - the Way to Kur
Ancient Mesopotamian religion puts the entrance of Kur, the Underworld, Great Earth or Dark Earth deep within a cavern of the Zagros...
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Jan 235 min read
Ancient Elam - Middle Elamite Period
The middle Elamite period lasts c. 1500 - 1000 BCE. It's marked by the c. 1500 BCE rise of the Anshanite dynasties. Read: Cult of the...
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Jan 225 min read
Inara & the Dragon - Purulliya Festival
Inara is the goddess of wild animals, hills and forests in Hittite mythology. The Purulliya Festival of spring comes from an older Hatti...
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Jan 214 min read
Telipinu - God of Farming & Crops
Telipinu is an agricultural deity who gets angry and leaves the home of the Gods. The effects are devastating. Telipinu is the son of...
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Jan 213 min read
Shurpu: Ancient Rite of Curse Removal
Shurpu (Šurpu) is a ritual or group of rituals to counter a curse of unknown origin. First practiced by priests and doctors in ancient...
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Jan 203 min read
Kulullu - Fish Man Monster of Tiamat
When Tiamat sees how her children have turned against her, betrayed and murdered her partner Abzu, her she screams out her grief and...
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Jan 204 min read
Ephedra - Oldest Medical Stimulant Herb
Ephedra is a genus of shrub growing in hot arid and semi-arid regions throughout the world. As a natural health medicine plant and...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 193 min read
Tarhunna (Tarḫunna) Storm God of the Hittites
Tarhunna (Tarḫunna) is the Storm and Weather God of the Hittites, a warrior people who occupy much of Anatolia in the Bronze Age....
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Jan 183 min read
Hannahanna - Great Grandmother Goddess
Hannahanna is the great grandmother goddess of the Hittites. She features in several myths usually following the exploits of her...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 183 min read
A Myth of Hahhima, Frost Demon God
Ḫaḫḫima (Hahhima) is a dreaded frost demon god of the ancient Hittites. His realm is a frozen wasteland. He spreads bitter cold and...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 185 min read
Hahhima - Deadly Hittite Frost Demon
When the Sun disappears, the frost demon Hahhima holds the land in his icy grip. An entity of cold and numbness, Hahhima has an arsenal...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 174 min read
Yazilikaya: Sacred Site of the Hittites
Yazılıkaya comes from the Turkish for inscribed rock. The sacred site is beside the city of Hattusa, the Hittite Bronze Age capital until...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 173 min read
Hashamili - Metal Work & Smith God
Hashamili (Ḫašamili, Ḫašameli) is the Hittite god of metal workers and metallurgists, metal working, smiths and smithing. He's also a...
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Jan 165 min read
The Shekelesh - Bronze Age Mysteries
Mercenaries, pirates, fugitives and thieves, what better place to plunder than the sunny eastern Mediterranean? With cunning coves and...
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