These peoples worshipped a sun goddess named Wurus
These peoples worshipped a sun goddess named Wurusemu, as well as a goddess of healing and medicine named Kamrusepa. The religious practice of these peoples involved sacred stele called huwasi stones. One figure from this mythology slays Illuyanka the serpent. These peoples' mythology includes the fertility goddess Arinna and the Gulsa Goddesses, who assist this culture's mother goddess, Hannahannas. An epic from this culture tells how one god bites off his father's testicles and spits them out, known as the Song of Kumbari, while the most famous story from this culture tells how Tarhunt the thunder god and others worked to bring back Telepinu, a foliage god who had gone into hiding. These peoples were heavily influenced by their neighbors, the Hurrians. For ten points, name this Anatolian culture whose language confirmed the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure about laryngeal consonants in Proto-Indo-European.
These peoples worshipped a sun goddess named Wurusemu, as well as a goddess of healing and medicine named Kamrusepa.
{Hittites} [prompt on “{Anatolians}”]