Tarhunna (the Storm-god of Hatti) vs Zeus

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.

King of the gods and ruler of Mount Olympus. God of the sky, thunder, and justice. Zeus overthrew his father Cronus to become the supreme deity of the Greek pantheon.

Zeus was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Cronus, fearing a prophecy that he would be overthrown by his children, swallowed each child at birth. Rhea hid Zeus and gave Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes instead. Zeus was raised in secret and later forced Cronus to regurgitate his siblings, leading the rebellion against the Titans.

Zeus is the supreme ruler of the gods, the lord of the sky, and the wielder of the thunderbolt. His power is greater than that of all the other gods combined. He presides over the oaths of men and the laws of the universe, ensuring justice and order.