Kašku ("shining star") was the
Hattian Moon god. He is known from the myth of the "Moon's fall from Heaven," in which he falls from his place in the sky and lands in the marketplace of the city of . The angry weather god Taru drenched him with a shower of rain and buffetted him with wind, which the goddess noticed while looking down from heaven, whereupon she and
Ḫapantali
Hapantali, also known as Hapantaliya, is an Anatolian and Luwian pastoral goddess.
Hapantali cares for the sheep of Istanu. She also helps moon god Arma/ Kaskuh, when he falls down from sky, and takes part in the conference of gods when Telipin ...
carried out a ritual to calm Taru. The myth belongs to a ritual which was to be carried out by the "Man of the weather god, if the weather god thunders terribly."
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Kušuḫ
Kušuḫ, also known under the name Umbu, was the List of Hurrian deities, Hurrian god of the moon. He is attested in cuneiform texts from many sites, from Hattusa in modern Turkey, through Ugarit, Alalakh, Mari, Syria, Mari and other locations in ...
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Hattian deities
Lunar gods