In what modern country substantially were the Hittite people?
Hittite mythology and religion Hittite mythology and religion Hittite mythology and Hittite religion were the religious beliefs and practices of the Hittites, who created an empire centered in what is now Turkey from c. 1600 BCE to 1180 BCE. Most of the narratives embodying Hittite mythology are lost, and the elements that would give a balanced view of Hittite religion are lacking among the tablets recovered at the Hittite capital Hattusa and other Hittite sites. Thus, "there are no canonical scriptures, no theological disquisitions or discourses, no aids to private devotion". Some religious documents formed part of the corpus with which young scribes were
Hittite language (Hebrew:*חתים "Ḥettim"), but that identification was later challenged. The terms "Hattian" and "Hattic", by contrast, refer respectively to the indigenous people who preceded them and to their non-Indo-European Hattic language. In multilingual texts found in Hittite locations, passages written in Hittite are preceded by the adverb "" (or "nasili", "nisili"), "in the [speech] of Neša (Kaneš)", an important city before the rise of the Hittite Empire. In one case, the label is "Kanisumnili", "in the [speech] of the people of Kaneš". Although the Hittite Empire had people from many diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, the Hittite language was used in