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359:, which causes him to weep and then experience dreams pertaining to this misfortune. Another scene might describe Kešši's refusal to hunt, while yet another focuses on an argument between him and his wife in front of an assembly of elders. It is presumed she is portrayed as the party who is in the wrong, possibly due to the influence of her brother. 114:
and other characters. The Hurrian version preserves sections focused on Kešši's despair after he is asked to donate his emmer, an argument between him and his wife and a number of references to events involving deities. The Hittite passages describe how Kešši abandoned his duties towards the gods and
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In the surviving sections of the Hittite version, Kešši's mother remarks that ever since he married Šindalimeni, he started to neglect his duties towards the gods and ceased to hunt to provide for her, which prompts him to go on a hunt, but as his actions have angered the gods, he fails to catch any
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have been discovered. Individual events vary between them, and they do not fully correspond to each other, but it is agreed that they record variants of the same main narrative. In addition to Kešši himself it involved his wife Šintalimeni, his mother, his wife's evil brother Udipšarri, a number of
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While it is agreed that all versions of the tale of Kešši record the same central narrative, individual details vary between them. It is possible that the plot revolved around Kešši going from one unlucky event to another. In addition to Kešši himself, the characters include his mother, his wife
328:Šintalimeni and her brother Udipšarri, described as an "evil man". The Hurrian version of the tale also mentions a man named Urumzi and a woman named Tadizuli, who might be Kešši's parents. One of the passages additionally mentions the Hurrian moon god, 367:. He spends three months in the mountains, and eventually falls sick. He is rescued through the intervention of a "father deity", an ancestor god. The reference to this figure is considered to be an echo of a non-Hurrian Syrian tradition of 343:
The Hittite version indicates that the story takes place near the mountain Natara and the city of Urma, but neither toponym is attested elsewhere. Another toponym, Illawa, is also attested elsewhere as the name of a
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his mother after getting married, a hunting trip and a number of dreams he has in its aftermath. Individual elements of the narrative have been compared to tales focused on other heroes, namely
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instead. Due to the state of preservation of the Akkadian Kešši tablet it is impossible determine if its contents directly correspond to any of the known Hurrian passages.
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version. The Hittite translation seemingly does not follow the Hurrian original directly, which according to Alfonso Archi might indicate it relied on an
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version is known from eighteen fragments, including one duplicate. It is estimated to originally have consisted of over 3000 lines spread over 15 or more
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Mary R. Bacharova suggests his appearance might be connected to Šintalimeni's role as a midwife, as the moon was associated with pregnancy.
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The scenes focused on Kešši's dreams and their interpretation has been compared to passages dealing with analogous topics in the
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due to prestige of the language, with a written Hurrian version being a later development reflecting the prestige of Hurrian in
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makes it possible to assume that all of the mentioned places are to be sought in areas historically inhabited by Hurrians.
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Eva von Dassow based on the plurality of variants concludes that similarly to tales focused on figures such as
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bearing it is the eponymous protagonist of a narrative of Hurrian origin known from sources from
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focused on dream interpretation are absent from the extant fragments of its Hittite adaptation.
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argues that the tale of Kešši can be compared to that focused on another Hurrian hero,
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origin, and can be translated as "the one who sets (traps)", literally "hunter". The
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are also mentioned, but it remains uncertain what roles they played in the story.
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classifies it as a "tale", which is a label he applies to literary texts from the
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Archi, Alfonso (2007). "Transmission of Recitative Literature by the Hittites".
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epic, and due to a number of textual peculiarities typical for Akkadian of the
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Fragments of the tale of Kešši in multiple languages have been discovered. The
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In the Hurrian version, Kešši is asked to provide a part of his harvest of
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version of the story. All of the Hittite and Hurrian fragments come from
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is the eponymous protagonist of a narrative of Hurrian origin known from
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Tadizuli's name is identical with that of a woman betrothed to the hero
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which instead show more similarities to Akkadian material from
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which feature human protagonists and do not deal with
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state that they belonged to a genre designated by the
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Index

Hurrian
romanized
diacritics
Hattusa
Amarna
Hurrian
Hittite
Akkadian
Hurrian deities
Kušuḫ
Kumarbi
Gurparanzaḫ
Gilgamesh
cuneiform
Hurrian
literary character
Hattusa
Amarna
Syria
colophons
Sumerogram
Song of Going Forth
Song of Release
Ullikummi
Song of the Sea
Epic of Gilgamesh
Gary Beckman
Hittite archives
cosmology
myths

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