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Kašku ("shining star") was the Hattian Moon god. He is known from the myth of the "Moon's fall from Heaven," in which he falls from his place in the sky and lands in the marketplace of the city of . The angry weather god Taru drenched him with a shower of rain and buffetted him with wind, which the goddess noticed while looking down from heaven, whereupon she and Ḫapantali carried out a ritual to calm Taru. The myth belongs to a ritual which was to be carried out by the "Man of the weather god, if the weather god thunders terribly."

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  • Kašku ist der hattische Mondgott. Von ihm handelt der Mythos „Mond fiel vom Himmel“, wonach er von seinem himmlischen Sitz auf den Markt der Stadt Laḫzan fiel. Der erzürnte Wettergott Taru schickte ihm Regenschauer und Sturmwinde nach, was die Göttin Kataḫziwuri vom Himmel herab sah, worauf sie mit Ḫapantali ein Ritual einleitete, um den Wettergott zu besänftigen. Der Mythos gehört zu einem Ritual, das vom „Mann des Wettergottes“ ausgeführt wurde, „wenn der Wettergott fürchterlich donnert“. (de)
  • Kašku ("shining star") was the Hattian Moon god. He is known from the myth of the "Moon's fall from Heaven," in which he falls from his place in the sky and lands in the marketplace of the city of . The angry weather god Taru drenched him with a shower of rain and buffetted him with wind, which the goddess noticed while looking down from heaven, whereupon she and Ḫapantali carried out a ritual to calm Taru. The myth belongs to a ritual which was to be carried out by the "Man of the weather god, if the weather god thunders terribly." (en)
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  • Kašku ist der hattische Mondgott. Von ihm handelt der Mythos „Mond fiel vom Himmel“, wonach er von seinem himmlischen Sitz auf den Markt der Stadt Laḫzan fiel. Der erzürnte Wettergott Taru schickte ihm Regenschauer und Sturmwinde nach, was die Göttin Kataḫziwuri vom Himmel herab sah, worauf sie mit Ḫapantali ein Ritual einleitete, um den Wettergott zu besänftigen. Der Mythos gehört zu einem Ritual, das vom „Mann des Wettergottes“ ausgeführt wurde, „wenn der Wettergott fürchterlich donnert“. (de)
  • Kašku ("shining star") was the Hattian Moon god. He is known from the myth of the "Moon's fall from Heaven," in which he falls from his place in the sky and lands in the marketplace of the city of . The angry weather god Taru drenched him with a shower of rain and buffetted him with wind, which the goddess noticed while looking down from heaven, whereupon she and Ḫapantali carried out a ritual to calm Taru. The myth belongs to a ritual which was to be carried out by the "Man of the weather god, if the weather god thunders terribly." (en)
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  • Kašku (de)
  • Kašku (en)
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