Aštabi

No indigenous origin myth for Aštabi is preserved in the cited materials. He is attested as a named god worshiped in third‑millennium Ebla and later incorporated into Hurrian religious frameworks and Hittite ritual iconography. Later Hurro‑Hittite mythic texts (e.g., the Song of Ullikummi) incorporate Aštabi into narratives of divine combat, but the Eblaite record does not securely assign him the warlike role found in those later sources.

The supplied sources do not provide a detailed physical description. In the rock sanctuary at Yazılıkaya Aštabi is represented as one of the gods following Teshub in procession (identified as figure 33), positioned with Šimige in front and Nupatik behind; elsewhere his name appears in alphasyllabic and logographic lists. No specific iconographic attributes (weapons, garments) are preserved in the cited materials.

In Hurrian, Hittite, and Ugaritic contexts Aštabi is attested as a war god and is equated with or comparable to other regional warrior deities (for example Attar, Lugal‑Marada, Zababa). In the Song of Ullikummi narrative the gods provide Aštabi with chariots to confront the stone monster Ullikummi and he fights alongside seventy unnamed allied warriors — evidence of a martial function within mythic combat. Eblaite documents show cultic engagement (cult centers, statues) and his participation in a purification ceremony to restore a prince's health, indicating ritual roles in civic and elite wellbeing as recorded in those texts.