Une épreuve pour différencier l'homme du dieu : le „texte des cannibales“ hittite (KBo 3-60) et quelques rapprochements, ou comment reconnaît-on un dieu hittite?

Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien

“…pettinato 1971, bes. 39-46;Dietrich 1991;lambert 1995b, 1832 Mouton (2004) vertritt dagegen die auffassung, daß auch die Götter mesopotamischen, insbesondere hethitischen texten zufolge kein Blut besitzen. 137 lämmerhirt/Zgoll (2009,145) grenzen den Begriff wie folgt ein: "Die durch übernatürliche, planvoll oder willkürlich agierende instanzen bestimmten lebensumstände und Befindlichkeiten".…”

Manly Deeds: Hittite Admonitory History and Eastern Mediterranean Didactic Epic

“…A relatively large fragment of CTH 15, however, often referred to as the "Cannibal Legend," tells an outlandish story of an encounter with enemies so barbaric that it is unclear whether they are human. 21 After we learn that one of them was fed a meal of cooked pork to ascertain whether he is god or human, which is suspiciously similar to an episode in the Cuthean Legend of NaramSin (Güterbock 1938: 111-12;Mouton 2004), there is a break in the text, which picks up again at the moment when the mother of Zuppa, one of the enemy leaders, having been coldly abandoned by her son, is eaten by the savages. Whether or not either of these episodes has any basis in fact, we can see that as the Hittites pushed into unfamiliar territory they framed their encounters with the Other as an opposition between human and non-human.…”