
Text · Hittite/Hurrian · Berlin
Kumarbi Cycle (Song of Kumarbi / Kingship in Heaven)
A Hittite tablet tells of a god who bit off his king's genitals, swallowed them, and became pregnant.
c.14th-13th c. BCE
Kumarbi's story seems to have reached Greece as the tale of Kronos. Who could have carried a myth that far, and how?
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