The Tale of Appu
(Hittite tale )
as the Sun God, the just man, he increased, and the bad people, he bends them like a tree and repeatedly smashes the Schakschakilusch on their heads and they destroyed it.
A city with a name Schudul, and there a country Lulluwa. This country has settled on the sea, on whose banks. And there above the sea, a male Man with the name: Appu. Most of it is in the area on the upper ocean, in cattle and sheep, it is much, silver, gold and lapis lazuli, but these three piles up at all Huwigatars. And he lacks nothing.
And it lacks one thing, a son, a daughter not exist. Sitting for a meal for the elders of Schudul, and that gives his son bread and meat, and that gives to his son. Appu but are not the bread anyone.
Appu rose. The offering table was covered with linen. In his house he went into the bedded bed he slept with his boots. The woman asked from the House of Appu comrades: He never attacked me down! Will he attack me now below? And she lay down attracted to Appu to bed. Appu, he jumped up from sleep, and his wife asked him out: You never got me down under attack! Do you have me down for now under attack? Appu listened to her and said, A woman you are, and kind of effeminate, and nothing you know about it! And
Appu got up, took a white lamb and went to the Sun God. The Sun God looked down from heaven. He was questioning the young man and began Appu: What is your sin? I will remove you.
Appu listened and replied: goods are to me, and cattle and sheep, and one thing I miss is a son, a daughter not me. The Sun God answered him, "Go! And drink! And drink your fill! To you the house go! And sleep upon your good wife in bedding! In bed, you give the gods a son.
Appu went back to Schudul, the Sun God, however, went up into the sky. The sun god the weather could already receive from afar, and he said to his vizier: For the first time he appears, the Sun God, the shepherd of the country's inhabitants! The country is not just any perished, or the cities, not some are deserted, and the troops are nowhere which was fought? He instruct the cook, the butler, to eat and drink to give to him!
And the Sun God came to the weather gods, and he ate nothing and drank nothing. The sun god was watching the weather, and he began to question: Why you eat, you drink anything? Cooking is my bad, the meals are cooked up, and is my butler badly that you pouring? The Sun God listened to him and said, have your bread and your meat and your beer I despised for this reason: your cooking, your butler, they are bad people.
Weather God listened to him and he became angry, began cursing and said, My sister, Ishtar, the queen of Nineveh, it will not scorn my bread and my meat, and they will not despise my beer! The Sun God listened to him and said, "I hear you curse, so I'm going now!
The sun god was. The weather gods but drank and he drank his fill. And the weather was the young man, he went to the house of Appu, and well he beschlief the wife of Appu in bedding, and five times he took her, and ten times he took it.
Appu when he came to his house, the weather gods he saw from afar in his bed in his own. The temple of his household gods said Appu: My paternal gods, you have not taken the right path and kept the bad way. I want the offering table cover now! And the weather went up into the sky.
And the woman of Appu began to be full: first month, second month, third month, fourth month, fifth month, sixth month, seventh month, eighth month, ninth month, the tenth month came in, and She gave birth to a son. The nurse was the son of the Appu on his knees. Appu, he began to rejoice over his son and rocking him, and he gave him the sweet name Bad: At that time my father's gods have not taken the right path and kept the bad way, and therefore it is the bad name!
For the second time the woman began to be full: first month, second month, third month, fourth month, fifth month, sixth month, seventh month, eighth month, ninth month, the tenth month came in, and she bore a son . Appu, he began to rejoice over his son and rocking him, and he gave him the sweet name of access: At that time, my father's gods right path taken, and therefore it was the name of justice!
Sons of Appu grew up and became adults, and men they were after the age. grown
When the sons of Appu, were when they were grown and the age for men, as Appu told his treasures among them. The house but he did not share it. Poor brother said so accessible to his brother: We want to share it and disposed to settle! Brother heard access to him and reply: Who's going to share this house as our father? And brother said
Poor access to Brother: How the mountains may be separated, as the rivers flow like separated and the gods, as they like to sit separately, let them tell you. The sun god is made to Sippar, the moon goddess, his sister, but after Kuzina. The weather gods use its Kumija, but the Ishtar of Nineveh. The Nanaja use its Kischana, but is set to Babylon Marduk. The gods, like how they sit separately, let's just settle separately!
brother and bad brother began to share access. And half brother was bad, and half of it was accessible, his brother. But they also have a plow ox and a cow and a plow ox, beef this good, bad brother who took it, and the cow, this bad beef, his brother, he gave it access. But the Sun God looked down from heaven and said: The cow of justice, the poor cow, well they should be, it is to be fully and give birth to a bull calf!
And the poor cow, the cow of justice, they began to be full: first month, second month, third month, fourth month, fifth month, sixth month, seventh month, eighth month, ninth month, the tenth month came in, and she gave birth to a bull calf. Just, he began to rejoice over the calf and rocked it and said it is growing up, an ox will be, and well he will pull my plow!
The bull calf of access grew and came into the age when it had to be cut down. grown
When the bull calf was disabled, as it cut down and had grown since it was an ox, and well he pulled the plow of justice. Poor brother, as he saw it pleased him the ox, beef this good, and he said to his brother friendly: Well, brother accessible, you have a good beef, and I will stretch my oxen to the yoke and plow I will all the fields that your people as my family!
bad brother tilled the fields, his own and that of his brother, but in the evening, he led the oxen of access to his house to his own. Brother accessible, as he saw it he went to him and said, bad brother, we have not shared the house of our Father in equal parts? And you did not plow my ox, this good beef, place in your house? But the ox of access, this good beef, brother gave him bad back.
The offering table was covered with linen. Access rose, took a white lamb and went to the Sun God. The Sun God looked down from heaven and became a young man, and he began to question Facilities: What is your sin? I will remove you.
listened to access and replied: My father's house, bad brother shared it with me and gave me the bad cow. The gods have made me a cow full and oxen. But bad, my brother, he has continued my oxen to his house to his own! The Sun God listened to him and said, Go! Into the house of your brother go! And drink with him! And you drink enough! Go to his house, and he shall give thee the oxen or go with you to Sippar!
The brother looked bad disabled brother from afar to say, and he gave him bread and meat to eat, and he gave him to drink beer. Poor access and brother and brother, they drank and drank their fill. But the ox, beef this good, bad brother did not return him to justice, his brother. They came to Sippar, and the sun god who takes care of the just man, he increased brother access and let him win the battle.
brother bad when he found out, he cursed the sun god, saying, My father's gods, the gods my house, I will ask for advice! The Sun God listened to him and said, I have been listening to you, brother, Bad, and now I will not fix! It is to decide Ishtar, the queen of Nineveh!
And they came to Nineveh, and Ishtar began to speak: you shall take the field here at Nineveh, and the winner will be increased! Poor brother and brother went to Nineveh to access each other's field, and brother was bad increased. He returned to the country Lulluwa, the city Schudul up there by the sea.
The Sun God looked down from heaven. He was a young man and went to bad brother. Then he began to question him as follows: poor, you do not have taken the right path, but kept the bad way and accessible, your brother, slain in front of Nineveh? Therefore, I curse you and your country!
spoke as the sun god, he smashed repeatedly on the head the Schakschakulisch access to and destroyed him with it. And the crops of the country Lulluwa he let wither, and fight the city Schudul the Upper Sea, he left by foreign troops. The city
Schudul and the area of the Upper Ocean, he had deserted her, because as the Sun God takes care of the righteous, which he constantly increased, and the wicked he turns like a tree.
(Note: it is a combination of paraphrase and translation of the original texts in cuneiform Hittite, the original text has unfortunately survived only in part, and I've tried the syntax of the - admittedly somewhat monotonous - reflect genuine Hittite literary style)
