Tarhunna (the Storm-god of Hatti) vs Telipinu

The chief god of the Hittite state: a storm-god of rain and thunder who gives the land its fertility, fights the serpent Illuyanka, and, under his Hurrian name Teššub, wins kingship in heaven in the Kumarbi cycle.

Hittite scribes usually wrote the storm-god's name with a Sumerian word-sign (dU or dIŠKUR, "the Storm-god"), so the Hittite reading is partly reconstructed; Tarḫunna is the most widely accepted reading, and the Luwian form Tarḫunt survived into the first millennium BCE. The same logogram covered the Hattian storm-god Taru and, from the fifteenth century onward, the Hurrian storm-god Teššub, whom the later Hittite royal family, closely tied to Hurrian Kizzuwatna, promoted to the head of the state cult. On this site these are treated as one entry because the Hittite sources themselves write them with one sign, but readers should know that the Hattian, Hittite, and Hurrian storm-gods had separate origins and were brought together by scribes and kings.

A Hattian god of farming and growth, son of the Storm-god, whose angry departure makes the whole land barren until a bee finds him asleep and a ritual soothes his rage.

Telipinu is a Hattian deity of agriculture and growth, called in the myth the son of the Storm-god. He is best known from the Disappearance of Telipinu (CTH 324), one of several Hittite "vanishing god" texts in which a deity leaves in anger and the world begins to die. The same pattern is told of the Storm-god, the Sun-god, the mother goddess Hannahanna, and others; Telipinu's version is simply the best preserved.