Kumarbi Cycle (Song of Kumarbi / Kingship in Heaven): Hasanlu-gold-cup
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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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