Hittite Pantheon Mythology Guide

Includes 3 JGP files: 1 Copy with Deities Colored by Archetype (i.e. Sun Gods, Sea Gods, etc), 1 Copy with Deities Colored by Dynasty (i.e. Tarhunna, Tiwaz, etc), and 1 Copy in Grayscale Optimized for Black & White Printing.

I (Joshua J Kes) am passionate about mythology and anthropology. I have a B.S. in Geography and Sociology; the study of places and people, respectively. I've been working on a database for comparative mythological studies for a few years now, and thought I'd put together some slick informative charts/posters of family trees for various pantheons.

I also produce YouTube videos on this subject @Sapienite1, with episodes on individual motifs and pantheons. If you like what you see, you may check them out for more details!

An aspect of these charts that needs to be said, is that I've made certain conflations between deities that, while informed by a philological comparison between differing sources, ultimately comes down to a subjective interpretation of similar motifs. Therefore, I am putting this out there as a hybrid of artistic and academic intentions. I put out YouTube videos on every chart, and can explain more of my reasons for certain decisions there.

My methodology of comparison for mythological motifs (the first copy) usually involves planetary or astrological associations, but this time, I used a simple coding system including 17 motifs/archetypes/codes, each color-coded and in order from left-to-right:

1. EARTH - Earth and Fertility Deities like Gaia, Demeter, or Mother Earth.

2. SKY - Sky Deities like Uranus or Sky Father.

3. WATER - Sea Deities like Neptune and Poseidon.

4. CHTHONIC - Underworld Deities like Pluto and Hades.

5. LUNAR - Moon Deities like Luna or Diana.

6. DUSK - Dusk or Fatal Deities like Morrigan or Odin.

7. SOLAR - Sun Deities like Apollo or Helios.

8. DAWN - Dawn, Love, or Justice Deities like Venus, Aphrodite, and Ishtar.

9. MESSENGER - Messenger Deities like Mercury and Hermes.

10. TRICKSTER - Trickster or Chaotic Deities like Set or Loki.

11. STORM - Storm/Thunder Deities like Jupiter and Zeus.

12. WAR - War Deities like Mars and Ares.

13. HEARTH - Hearth or Smithing Deities like Vulcan/Hephaestus and Vesta/Hestia.

14. VITAL - Vital or Festive Deities like Bacchus and Dionysus.

15. FORTUNE - Fortune or Mountain Deities like Saturn and Kronos.

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