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    In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpentine dragon slain by Tarḫunz (dIM), the Hittite incarnation of the Hurrian god of sky and storm. It is known...
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    who lures Illuyanka from his lair with a banquet, thereby enabling Tarhunna to surprise and kill Illuyanka. In the other version Illuyanka steals the...
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    some cases thought to be a god of chaos Eris Hydra (mythology) Typhon Illuyanka Vritra Angra Mainyu, Zoroastrian god of evil and opposed to Ahura Mazda...
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    Veles (Slavic) Dobrynya Nikitich vs. Zmey Gorynych (Slavic) Tarhunt vs. Illuyanka (Hittite) Teshub vs. Ullikummi (Hurrian) Zeus vs. Typhon (Greek) Heracles...
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  • god Tarḫunna slays Illuyanka. The contest is a ritual of the Hattian spring festival of Puruli. According to Katz (1998), Illuyanka's name is probably a...
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  • theron" of Greek mythology, better known as Artemis. After the dragon Illuyanka wins an encounter with the storm god, the latter asks Inara to give a...
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    other mythologies perhaps linked to the Tiamat myth include: the Hittite Illuyanka myth; the Greek lore of Apollo's killing of the Python as a necessary...
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    via Anatolia. In the Hittite version of the myth, the dragon is called Illuyanka: the illuy- part is cognate to the word illa, and the -anka part is cognate...
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  • In Hittite mythology, the storm god Tarhunt slays the giant serpent Illuyanka, as does the Vedic god Indra the multi-headed serpent Vritra, which has...
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    modern Hebrew usage, the word tanin (תנין) means crocodile. Chaoskampf Illuyanka Lotan Makara This passage in Isaiah directly parallels another from the...
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    connected by Katz, J. (1998). "How to be a Dragon in Indo-European: Hittite illuyankas and its Linguistic and Cultural Congeners in Latin, Greek, and Germanic"...
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    Greek version of the West Semitic serpent Lotan, or the Hurrian serpent Illuyanka.[citation needed] He might be given multiple heads, a hundred in Aristophanes'...
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    city name. The Hittite legends of Telipinu and the serpentine dragon Illuyanka find their origin in the Hattian civilization. Hattian language Akurgal...
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    213–214 Nordig sagas. Hittite myth of Illuyankas. Also in the Bible: Leviathan. W. Porzig (1930). Illuyankas and Typhon. Kleinasiatische Forschung, pp...
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    Veles Dobrynya Nikitich vs. Zmey Gorynych Hittite mythology Tarhunt vs. Illuyanka Hurrian mythology Teshub vs. Ullikummi Greek mythology Zeus vs. Typhon...
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    In Hittite mythology, the storm god Tarhunt slays the giant serpent Illuyanka, as does the Vedic god Indra the multi-headed serpent Vritra, which has...
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  • which caused trouble on the Syrian coast. His Hittite counterpart was Illuyanka. Ḫedammu is the son of the god Kumarbi and Šertapšuruḫi [de], the daughter...
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  • Anatolian dragons Illuyanka Originating from Hittite mythology, a serpentine dragon slain by Tarḫunz. Ebren The Turkish dragon secretes flames from its...
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    Song of Hedammu, the Baal cycle, the Illuyanka myth, and the Astarte papyrus. In the Song of Hedammu and the Illuyanka Myth the sea acts as a sort of breeding...
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  • Araki's Purple Haze, Kentaro Miura's Femto, Kazuma Kaneko's design for Illuyanka in the Shin Megami Tensei franchise and Digimon's Apocalymon and Beelzemon...
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  • Hittite laws (CTH 291–292), also called the Code of the Nesilim Myth of Illuyanka Kikkuli's horse training instructions Indictment of Madduwatta Manapa-Tarhunta...
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    Leviathan and Yahweh, Tiamat and Marduk (see also Labbu, Bašmu, Mušḫuššu), Illuyanka and Tarhunt, Yammu and Baal in the Baal Cycle etc. The Hebrew Bible also...
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    called "geł". May have been connected to Hurrian Ullikummi and Hittite Illuyanka. These figures are mainly known through post-Christian sources, but have...
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  • (dialectal) "viper, adder"; OArm awj "snake", iž, iwž "viper" B auk "snake" Illuyanka "mythical snake foe" *h₂eyǵ- "goat" aíx "goat" eḍa "a kind of sheep" ayts...
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  • Veles Dobrynya Nikitich vs. Zmey Gorynych Hittite mythology Tarhunt vs. Illuyanka Hurrian mythology Teshub vs. Ullikummi Greek mythology Zeus vs. Typhon...
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  • of the Puruli festival is dedicated to the destruction of the dragon Illuyanka by the storm god Teshub. The corresponding Assyrian festival is the Akitu...
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    foreign power. Teshub was also known for his conflict with the serpent Illuyanka. The Hittite gods are also honoured with festivals, such as Puruli in...
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    folklore Serpent symbolism Mythological dragons, serpents, and snakes Illuyanka – serpentine dragon from Hittite mythology and religion Nāga – half-human...
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  • example Tarhunt the God of thunder, and his conflict with the Serpent-God Illuyanka. Tarhunt has a son, Telepinu and a daughter, Inara. Inara is involved...
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    against a snake-like water creature. This depiction recalls the Hittite Illuyanka and Hurrian Ḫedammu, a myth which is widespread in Proto-Indo-European...
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