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Tashmishu

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Divine figure named in Kumarbi’s pregnancy with the storm god and the river Aranzah.

Modern diagram highlighting Tashmishu among the figures in Kumarbi’s pregnancy account. It preserves the multiple names without supplying a complete biography or imagined portrait
Modern diagram highlighting Tashmishu among the figures in Kumarbi’s pregnancy account. It preserves the multiple names without supplying a complete biography or imagined portraitOriginal diagram: IL Archive,2026 · CC0License · Image source

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Tashmishu is a divine figure in the KumarbiKumarbiHurrian divine figure in Hittite CTH 344; challenges Anu and carries the storm god after swallowing his seed.Glossary · Click to read the explanation song. The pregnancy lines name him beside the storm god and AranzahAranzahRiver as a divine figure, named among those Kumarbi carries in the Hittite song.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. His role here concerns births resulting from Kumarbi’s conflict with AnuAn / AnuSumerian/Akkadian sky god; multifunctional AN alone cannot identify him in the earliest texts.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. [1]

References and notes

  1. TITUS — CTH344 Lines35–49: Tashmishu and the pregnancy. Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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IL Archive, «Tashmishu», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/tashmishu-kumarbi-song