Lands and Memory: An Approach to the Hittite Mythological Texts

ROMINA DELLA CASA

Illinois

Congreso; Midwest regional meetings of the combined AOS/ASOR/SBL; 2013

AOS/ASOR/SBL

Lands and Memory: An Approach to the Hittite Mythological Texts The aim of the following analysis is to interpret the meaning of the Telepinu Myth during the Early Empire, when several copies of this sacred story were set down in writing, and located in Büyükkale (Building A). Socio-historical circumstances which encouraged the remembrance of this narrative will be considered ?specifically the Kaska destruction of the Hittite productive fields, described in the letters from Maşat-Höyük. Moreover, a specific concept (mythical memory) will be developed to analyze the Hittite way of remembering their sacred past during the ca. 1450?1350 BC.