Kumarbi is a deity in Mesopotamian folklore, from Hurrian world (Anatolia to the Zagros). Kumarbi is a senior Hurrian deity, portrayed as an ancestral or patriarchal 'father of gods' and an older, deposed ruler who schemes to regain divine authority. He is central to the Kumarbi Cycle of myths, where he fathers challengers to the storm-god Teshub and is associated with chthonic residence and prosperity.
In Hurrian theogony Kumarbi is an elder divine figure, described as 'father of gods' and functioning as a progenitor in a succession mythic sequence. In a foundational episode he bites off the genitals of the sky-god Anu, an act that leads to the conception of subsequent divine generations (including, in some accounts, Teshub). Kumarbi is then a deposed ruler who fathers challengers—such as Ullikummi and others named in the Kumarbi Cycle—intended to overthrow the reigning storm-god Teshub, setting the theme of contested divine kingship.
Surviving summaries portray Kumarbi as an old, deposed king of the gods; no detailed iconographic description is provided in the available sources. A figure identified as Kumarbi has been proposed among the deity reliefs at the Yazılıkaya sanctuary, though descriptive details from that relief are not supplied in the present material.
Mythically Kumarbi functions as a schemer and progenitor able to engender powerful antagonists to the storm-god Teshub (for example fathering the stone giant Ullikummi). He is associated with chthonic residence (an underworld abode) and with prosperity and, in some scholarly readings, agricultural functions (the latter association is limited and debated). He appears in god-lists and ritual contexts, indicating cultic invocation beyond purely narrative roles.
Teshub
Teshub is the Hurrian storm and sky god, head of the Hurrian pantheon whose domain includes winds, lightning, thunder and rain. He functions as both a destructive storm-force and a life-giving fertility deity, a divine king who features centrally in myths of succession and combat (the Kumarbi Cycle).
Anansi
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Ullikummi
Ullikummi is a giant stone monster from the Hurrian/Hittite Kumarbi cycle, created by the god Kumarbi to overthrow the storm-god Teshub. Concealed in the netherworld and placed on the shoulder of the giant Upelluri, he grows until he reaches the heavens and must be felled by the god Ea.
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*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
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57 Mnemosyne
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A'annepada
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Abaddon
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Abadir
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Aban Yasht
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Abath
No corroborated folkloric entity named "Abath" is documented in the provided sources. The string appears in the supplied material only as a surname/personal name in Aruban/Dutch-Caribbean archival records and as an unrelated taxonomic or encyclopedic hit; no mythic attributes, origin stories, rituals, or apotropaic practices for an entity called Abath are present in the documents reviewed.
Abatur
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Abatwa (Twa / Batwa)
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Abellio
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