Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Shoe Imagery in the Hittite "Song of Ullikummi"

  

In the Song of Ullikummi Kumarbi says to his vizier, “Take your staff with your hand and pu[t] the swift winds o[n yo]ur [feet] as shoes” (C[atalogue des]T[exts]H[itties] 345.I.1.A) (Mary R. Bachvarova, From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020], 43)

 

Further Reading:


David Bokovoy versus Robert Bowman on the Shoe Imagery in the Book of Mormon and Bible