Ullikummi
Ullikummi West AsiaThe Song of Ullikummi is a Hurrian myth, although as it happens we know of it only through Hittite tablets recovered from Hattusa. The song narrates a conflict between the generations of the gods. In the beginning Alalus was king of heaven, served by Anu,‘the first among the gods’, until a conspiracy toppled him, sent the dethroned deity to ‘the dark earth’, and elevated Anu. In turn the successor was attacked by ‘the father of the gods’, Kumarbi, who emasculated Anu with a single bite and then spat out of his mouth three new deities–Teshub, the storm god, Tasmisus, that god's attendant, and a river god. It appears that Teshub displaced Kumarbi, but the tenacious father refused to accept this loss of dignity and plotted against his usurping son. He enlisted the support of the sea god, or, according to a variant, married the sea god's daughter and begot the giant named Ullikummi, which may mean ‘destroyer of Kummiya’....
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