Formen der Transaktion im Hethitischen "Staatskult" – Idee und Wirklichkeit

Hittite Religious Rituals and the Ideology of Kingship

“…Celebrating the festivals of the gods as well as observing the regular maintenance of their cult was perhaps the most important task of Hittite society as such, (general surveys on Hittite religion include Gurney 1977; Haas 1994 and now Taracha 2009). In the land of the 1000 gods, as the Hittites sometimes referred to their kingdom, maintenance of the cult was a very expansive and complex matter (on the finances of Hittite cult see Gilan 2007 with ample references). Neglecting the cult of a certain deity could have caused terrible consequences, as numerous passages from Hittite royal prayers (Singer 2002) demonstrate.…”