Join BookitisSave favorites, build lists, and follow creators.

The Hittite State Cult of the Tutelary Deities

Work detail

Bookitis Pick
Cover for The Hittite State Cult of the Tutelary Deities
TH
Image source: Open Library
John Gregory McMahon2 editions

The author discusses tutelary deities, who play a rather prominent role in the Hittite state cult ceremonies. The book includes critical editions and discussions of all the festival texts that describe festivals devoted primarily or exclusively to tutelary deities. One of these festivals involves a kind of theological exercise in naming all of the possible tutelary deities, and another involves the replacing of an old cult image with a new one. In addition to the festivals for tutelary deities, their role in the cult in general is discussed in a comprehensive chapter.

Overview

Shared work-level identity and catalog context.

1 credited authorSearch language english

Bookitis keeps work pages focused on the shared book identity and the editions that actually belong to it. Unrelated books should not appear here as primary content.

Contributors

People credited with this work in the active catalog.

  • John Gregory McMahon

    Author profile in the active Bookitis catalog

    Open Author

Editions

Publication-specific versions linked to this work only.