Question

A conjuring spell written by this people is the only known source for the lost ancient language of Kalasma. This people translated an epic cycle beginning with the “Song of Emergence.” The king and queen of this (15[1])people (15[1])were the high priest and priestess of their Sun Goddess of Arinna. In a text adopted by this people, a goddess successfully seduces a sea serpent but fails to affect a deaf and blind giant. A god of this people once became so angry that he put his shoes on the wrong feet and ran away. Hannahanna sent a (*) bee to retrieve that vanishing god of this people, Telepinu. (10[1])In an epic adopted by this people, the weather god defeats (10[2])the stone giant Ullikummi; that cycle translated by this people also includes a narrative resembling Ouranos and Kronos, in which Kumarbi bites off Anu’s genitals. For 10 points, Tarhunna was a god of what Anatolian people, with an empire ruled from Hattusa? ■END■

ANSWER: Hittites [accept Hatti; or Nesilim; or Neshites; accept Hurro-Hittite; prompt on Hurrian with “what people did their mythology strongly influence?”] (The Hittites adopted the Kumarbi Cycle from the Hurrians.)
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