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Hupasiya
Inara’s human helper in the first Hittite Illuyanka account, who binds the serpent after the feast.
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Hupasiya is a human character in the first Hittite IlluyankaIlluyankaThe serpent opposed by the storm god in two Hittite narratives preserved in CTH 321.Glossary · Click to read the explanation account. He answers the goddess InaraInaraGoddess in Hittite traditions who plans the feast enabling the serpent’s defeat in the first Illuyanka account.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s request and helps by binding the serpent, which the storm god then kills. [1]
Afterward Inara houses him and forbids him to look toward his wife and children. He looks and asks to return to them. The passage’s ending is damaged, leaving his fate unclear. This is a textual character, not an independently documented historical biography. [1]
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- TITUS — CTH 321, German edited translation First account, lines 16–59 and editorial notes; damaged ending. Return to the text ↑
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IL Archive, «Hupasiya», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/people/hupasiya-illuyanka