Puruli was a Hattian

Hattian

The word Hattian may refer to:* An ancient people of Anatolia, the Hattians.* An extinct language spoken in that region, the Hattic language....

 spring festival, held at Nerik

Nerik

Nerik was a Bronze Age city to the north of the Hittite capitals Hattusa and Sapinuwa. The Hittites held it as sacred to a storm god who was the son of Wurusemu, sun goddess of Arinna...

, dedicated to the earth goddess Hannahanna, who is married to a new king.

The central ritual of the Puruli festival is dedicated to the destruction of the dragon Illuyanka

Illuyanka

In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpentine dragon slain by Tarhunt , the Hittite incarnation of the Hurrian god of sky and storm. It is known from Hittite cuneiform tablets found at Çorum-Boğazköy, the former Hittite capital Hattusa...

 by the storm god Teshub

Teshub

Teshub was the Hurrian god of sky and storm. He was derived from the Hattian Taru. His Hittite and Luwian name was Tarhun , although this name is from the Hittite root *tarh- to defeat, conquer.- Depiction and myths :He is depicted holding a triple...

. The corresponding Assyrian festival is the Akitu of the Enuma Elish

Enûma Elish

The is the Babylonian creation myth . It was recovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh , and published by George Smith in 1876.The Enûma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets, each holding...

. Also compared are the Canaanite Poem of Baal and Psalms

Psalms

The Book of Psalms , commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible...

  93

Psalm 93

Psalm 93 is the 93rd psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms. One of the Royal Psalms, Psalm 93-99, praising God as the King of His people.-Judaism:*Is the psalm of the day for the Shir Shel Yom on Friday....

 and 29

Psalm 29

Psalm 29 is the 29th psalm from the Book of Psalms.-Judaism:*Is the sixth paragraph of Kabbalat Shabbat.*Is recited on Shabbat during Shacharit as when returning the Torah Scroll to the ark.*Is recited in some congregations before Maariv on Motzei Shabbat....

.

Biblical Hannah

Hannah

Hannah or Hanna may refer to:*Hannah , a given name*Hannah , a family name*Hannah , the mother of Samuel*Hannah Montana, a television series on the Disney Channel-Places:* Hanna, Alberta, a town in Alberta, Canada...

 has been suggested as a Hebrew version of Hannahanna.

Literature

• J. G. Macqueen, Hattian Mythology and Hittite Monarchy, Anatolian Studies (1959).
• Theodor H. Gaster, Psalm 29, The Jewish Quarterly Review, University of Pennsylvania (1946)