Tarḫunz
Sign in to savethumb|Tarhunza of Aleppo Tarḫunz (stem: Tarḫunt-) was the weather god and chief god of the Luwians, a people of Bronze Age and early Iron Age Anatolia. He is closely associated with the Hittite god Tarḫunna and the Hurrian god Teshub.
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14 sectionsContents
- Name
- Onomastic legacy
- Description
- Personal god of Muwatalli II
- Tarhunz of the vineyard
- Cult sites
- Dragon slayer
- Depiction
- Depictions of Tarhunz
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Tarhunza of Aleppo Tarḫunz (stem: Tarḫunt-) was the weather god and chief god of the Luwians, a people of Bronze Age and early Iron Age Anatolia. He is closely associated with the Hittite god Tarḫunna and the Hurrian god Teshub.
== Name == The name of the Proto-Anatolian weather god can be reconstructed as *Tṛḫu-ent- ("conquering"), a participle form of the Proto-Indo-European root *terh2, "to cross over, pass through, overcome". It has cognates in Hittite tarḫu-, Latin trans-, Dutch door, German durch, and English through. The same name was used in almost all Anatolian languages: Hittite Tarḫunna-; Carian Trquδ-; Milyan Trqqñt-, and Lycian: Trqqas (A), Trqqiz (B), who has been identified with Zeus.
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