Tarhun

Also spelled �Taru, Tarhu, Tarhunt, Tarhunna, or Tarhuis, � ancient Anatolian weather god. His name appears in Hittite and Assyrian records (c. 1400 - 612 BC) and later as an element in Hellenistic personal names, primarily from Cilicia. Tarhunt was the Luwian form and Tarhun (Tarhunna) probably the Hittite, from the common root tarh-, �to conquer.� The weather god was one of the supreme deities of the Hittite pantheon and was regarded as the embodiment