entities: ENT_HTT_TELIPINU

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_HTT_TELIPINU Telipinu   Hittite Vegetation/fertility deity Nature Deity vegetation; agriculture; disappearing god; spring return; fertility; Telipinu myth       A           Hittite deity whose disappearance causes all fertility to fail; the "vanishing deity" myth (CTH 324-325) is the most completely preserved Hittite myth with multiple versions; Telipinu vanishes in anger (putting his boots on wrong feet in his haste), all crops wither and animals stop reproducing until the bee sent by Hannahanna finds him sleeping; he is ritually reconciled and life returns; the paradigm for the Hittite contribution to the seasonal disappearance-and-return mythology that parallels Persephone/Demeter and the Mesopotamian Dumuzi/Tammuz dying-deity pattern deity

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