Hitit İnanç Dünyasının Temel Yönleri ile Toplumsal Yaşamdaki Yansımaları.

The prominent religious feature of the Hittites is that they are polytheistic. However, these deities are not just the creator deities, but a chaotic community of deities with hundreds of gods and goddesses. The Hittite gods are anthropomorphic with their emotions, eating, drinking, and procreating features and descriptions. There are also more local forms of the same gods worshiped elsewhere. The cult of each god is consecrated according to his/her degree. The change in the Hittite political history also affected the worship of the gods, and there were changes in the precedence of the gods. In a religious cult where there are many gods, taking care of these gods and consecrating their cults are difficult and time-consuming activities. The consecration of the cult of the gods is among the main duties of the Hittites that should not be neglected. By always offering sacrifices to the gods, they should be treated well. Especially the festival ceremonies are the times when a kind of show of gratitude is made to the gods. Natural events were perceived as a punishment method sent to the Hittites by the gods. The anger of the gods meant that the people faced bad living conditions such as flood, drought, famine, and disease. They tried to find out why the gods were angry because they did not want to the calamity. In their mythological texts, they describe what the angry gods could do, and therewith they worship more the gods. After they died, they believed that kings and queens were among the gods and goddesses and worshiped their cult. After other people died, their afterlife continued in the dark underworld. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]