The Hittites' Gods Dual Sexuality

Document Type : Academic scientific reviews of any other material related to the main domains of this Journal.

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Teacher of history and civilization of Egypt and the Ancient Near East in the Department of History - Faculty of Arts - University of Aswan

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The gods in the eyes of man were just like humans eat, drink, marry, and give birth, and love, and wrestling, and defeated, therefore, the gods are considered embodiment of the reality of human life, and all human, political, and social developments in the human society are reflected, in turn, in the existing divine order, the status and significance of the gods, their gender, and their relationship to each other vary according to these developments.
Hence, we find that some gods took dual sexuality during their worship in the Hittite community because of religious reasons and developments in the political and social aspects of this society, so the research aims to shed light on these gods, and focus on the reasons that led to the duplication of sex, in addition to the reasons that led to the change of the sex of some of them.
The change may not be in the gender and attributes of God; however, the change  may be in the role it plays ; the role of some goddesses  may change and take the leading role that is embodied and represented by the opposite sex which is to be analyzed in this research.

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