Hittites
Hittites
Language
Militarism
Religion
Government
Law
Hittite is deciphered
Indo-
European
Languages
Hattushas Lion Gate
Militarism
Compare with Knossos
Battle of Kadesh
c. 1274 BCE
Dawn
Hittite religion
None are universal
But specific to that people, they are the people’s “lord”
who protects them.
Since the gods are not universal, there is a storm-god of the
Hittites, Zeus for the Greeks, Jupiter for the Romans, as well as
Tarhunt for the Luwians, Teshup for the Hurrians, etc.
Reward for worship is in THIS life.
Afterlife for us�
The netherworld is below ground without sunlight.
“One does not recognize the other. Sisters by the same mother
do not recognize each other. A mother does not recognize her
own child… From a fine table they do not eat. From a fine cup
They do not drink. They eat bits of mud, they drink muddy water.”
Ie., gloomy view, not the Egyptian or Mystery religion view.
Pankush
Council of ‘lords’
Hittite Laws
1 [If] anyone kills [a man] or a woman in a [quarr]eL he shall [bring him]
for burial and shall give 4 persons, male or female respectively.
He shall look [to his house for it}".,
3.[If} anyone strikes a free {man] or woman so that he dies,
but it is an accident,
he shall bring him for burial and shall give 2 persons.
He shall look to his house for it.
Laws of restitution
Mycenean Greek
Mycenae--------------Hattushas
Mycenean Death Mask, NOT Agamemnon, c. 1550 BC
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