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/Home/Historical Studies/History/Ancient Civilizations/Middle East/Hittites Hittite/Hurrian Mythology REF Votes:0 Hittite/Hurrian Mythology REF 1.2 by Christopher B. Siren cbsiren at alum dot mit dot edu last modified Mar. 13th, 1998: added a bunch of information from the first half of Hoffner. Mar. 29th, 1996: corrected some cross-reference links. I. Who were the 'Hittites'? II. What Deities did they worship? A. Hittite and Hurrian deities. B. Akkadian Imports. C. Demons. D. Mortals. III. What was the Hittite cosmology and how did they perceive the structure of the universe? IV. Source material. I. Who were the 'Hittites'? During the second millennium B.C. a group of people known as the Hittites, who spoke an Indo-European language, ruled over the 'Land of Hatti', in central and eastern Anatolia, that peninsula which is modern Turkey. They had displaced the previous occupants, the Hattians (who spoke Read More Go to Site Hittites Votes:0 Hittites Map animation Ancient people living in Anatolia in modern Turkey , and in northern Syria . The Hittites established two Empires in recorded history, the Old Hittite Kingdom, which lasted from around about 1680 until about 1500 BCE, and the second, called the New Hittite Kingdom, which lasted from about 1400 util about 1200 BCE. The land that the Hittites originally inhabited was known as Hatti, and their main city became Hattusha . Although the origin of the Hittites is not known, it is clear that they did speak an Indo-European language , often called Nesian. OLD HITTITE KINGDOM (1680-1500 BCE) This kingdom was founded by the leader, Labarna, and under later kings it was extended to cover all of central Anatolia, down to the Mediterranean Sea. The kingdom became strong enough to Read More Go to Site The Hittites Votes:0 Roaring into history from mysterious origins, the Hittites would rule a great empire that stretched from Mesopotamia to Syria and Palestine. The Hittites are shrouded in fog and mystery; we don't where they came from, and for a long time the language they spoke was undecipherable. In the end, it turns out they were Indo-European , that is, they spoke a language from the Indo-European language family, which includes English, German, Greek, Latin, Persian, and the languages of India. Their invasion spelled the end of the Old Babylonian empire in Mesopotamia (1900-1600 BC), and like so many others before them, the invaders adopted the ways of the conquered; after the conquest of Mesopotamia, the Hittites adopted the laws, religion, and the literature of the Old Babylonians thus continuing the Read More Go to Site

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