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'''Upelluri''' or '''Ubelluri''' was a primordial giant in ]. |
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In ] mythology, '''Upelluri''' was the "dreaming god". The gods placed the stone giant ] on Upelluri's shoulders to form the world. In his slumber, Upelluri was unaware of his burden. He has been compared to ] from ]. The ] counterpart was '''Ubelluris''', a ] god who carried the western edge of the sky on his shoulders. |
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He is only known from the ''Song of ]'', which is one of the few Hurrian texts offering a view of this culture's cosmology.{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=136}} It was believed that Upelluri was already alive during the separation of heaven and earth, which were placed on his back,{{sfn|Bachvarova|2013|p=175}} and that he lived in the "Dark Earth," the Hurrian ].{{sfn|Wilhelm|2014|p=307}} His name ends with the Hurrian suffix -''luri'', known also from the names of the mountain goddess ] and Impaluri, ] (attendant deity) of the sea god ], as well as a number of Hurrian mountain and stone names.{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=409}} |
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==See also== |
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In the ''Song of Ullikummi'', known from poorly preserved fragments of a Hurrian original and a more complete Hittite translation, the eponymous monster is placed on his right shoulder by Irširra (perhaps to be identified as goddesses of nursing and midwifery{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=309}}), the servants of ], to let him grow away from sight of allies of Kumarbi's enemy ], such as the sun god ].{{sfn|Wilhelm|2014|p=307}} Later the god ] seeks him out in order to find out how to defeat Ullikummi, and asks him if he is aware of the identity of the monster growing on his back. As it turns out, Upelluri did not notice the new burden at first, but eventually he starts to feel discomfort, something that according to this text he did not experience even during the separation of heaven and earth. The rest of the tablet is broken, and the next preserved scene does not feature Upelluri anymore.{{sfn|Bachvarova|2013|p=175}} |
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It has been pointed out that the later Greek ] plays a cosmological role similar to that of Upelluri.{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=136}} |
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==References== |
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===Bibliography=== |
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*{{cite book|last=Bachvarova|first=Mary R.|title=Gods, heroes, and monsters: a sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern myths|chapter=The Hurro-Hittite Kumarbi Cycle|chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/39143206|publisher=Oxford University Press|publication-place=New York|year=2013|isbn=978-0-19-064481-9|oclc=967417697}} |
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*{{cite book|last=Haas|first=Volkert|title=Geschichte der hethitischen Religion|publisher=Brill|series=Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East|year=2015|isbn=978-90-04-29394-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EOh5DwAAQBAJ|language=de|access-date=2022-03-14}} |
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*{{citation|last=Wilhelm|first=Gernot|entry=Ullikummi|encyclopedia=Reallexikon der Assyriologie|year=2014|entry-url=http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#12035|language=de|access-date=2022-03-14}} |
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