Editing Typhon (section)

=====Tarhunna vs. Illuyanka=====
[[Image:Museum of Anatolian Civilizations082 kopie1jpg.jpg|thumb|right|300px| [[Tarḫunna|Tarhunna]] battles the serpent [[Illuyanka]], [[Museum of Anatolian Civilizations]], [[Ankara]], [[Turkey]].]]
From the north side of the Jebel Aqra, come [[Hittites|Hittite]] myths, c. 1250 BC, which tell two versions of the storm-god [[Tarḫunna|Tarhunna]]'s (Tarhunta's) battle against the serpent [[Illuyanka|Illuyanka(s)]].<ref>Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA121 pp. 121–125]; West 1966, pp. 391–392 line 853; Burkert, [https://books.google.com/books?id=VyoiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 p. 20]; Penglase, pp. 163–164; Watkins, pp. 444–446; West 1997, p. 304; Lane Fox, pp. 284–285; Ogden 2013a, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA12 12–13], [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA75 75], [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA77 77–78].</ref> In both of these versions, Tarhunna suffers an initial defeat against Illuyanka. In one version, Tarhunna seeks help from the goddess [[Inara (goddess)|Inara]], who lures Illuyanka from his lair with a banquet, thereby enabling Tarhunna to surprise and kill Illuyanka. In the other version Illuyanka steals the heart and eyes of the defeated god, but Tarhunna's son marries a daughter of Illuyanka and is able to retrieve Tarhunna's stolen body parts, whereupon Tarhunna kills Illuyanka.

These stories particularly resemble details found in the accounts of the Typhonomachy of Apollodorus, Oppian and Nonnus, which, though late accounts, possibly preserve much earlier ones:<ref>West 1966, pp. 21–22, 391–392 line 853; Penglase, p. 164 (who calls Tarhunna by his Hurrian name Teshub); Lane Fox, pp. 286–287; Ogden 2013a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA77 pp. 77–78]</ref> The storm-god's initial defeat (Apollodorus, Nonnus), the loss of vital body parts (sinews: Apollodorus, Nonnus), the help of allies (Hermes and Aegipan: Apollodorus; Cadmos and Pan: Nonnus; Pan: Oppian), the luring of the serpentine opponent from his lair through the trickery of a banquet (Oppian, or by music: Nonnus).