Hattusili’s Annals body themselves as a written record and are encouraged by way of a center Assyrian culture of writing down for reveal the exploits of the king to valid his rule (Klinger 2001a). but strange to this early interval by myself, within which the Hittites have been experimenting with writing down background in numerous codecs (de Martino 2002: 79), are previous Hittite narratives that checklist in a extra shiny sort suggestive of orally advised tales an analogous res gestae extolled within the Annals. sixteen those increase in numerous methods animal or animalistic imagery that offers context to Herodotus’s fascination with unique peoples and far flung areas and Thucydides’ exploration of human nature. 17 additionally, those mythopoietic texts have been composed inside 100 years, probably inside of a iteration, of the occasions themselves and have been 70 Mary R. Bachvarova copied aspect by means of aspect with the Annals for a few four hundred years, displaying that we won't imagine when it comes to legend changing historiography as occasions fade into people reminiscence. relatively, we see legend speedily and consciously synthetic and utilized to justify real-life occasions, and to exaggerate their ancient value. The Siege of Urshu tells from one other perspective the occasions narrated in §4 of Hattusili’s Annals. 18 It specializes in the king’s reactions to his incompetent generals, with broad prices together with animal imagery, whereas a fragmentary textual content in regards to the destruction of Hassu tells how Zukrashi, the enemy normal (a genuine one that additionally appears to be like within the data of Alalakh VII), met his finish. 19 every one textual content presents a window into using animal imagery, that is frequently humiliating and dehumanizing, in authoritative speech by way of the king,20 who mockingly feedback that “a puppy will run” prior to his generals’ military once they pass into conflict (CTH 7 i 8′–9′). He thereby inverts a twin of the god who runs prior to the positive military, and threatens his opponent: “I will hunt you love a undergo, and you may die from asphyxiation” (CTH 15. A ii 5–6). to date we stay within the actual international. a comparatively huge fragment of CTH 15, even if, also known as the “Cannibal Legend,” tells an outlandish tale of an stumble upon with enemies so barbaric that it really is uncertain whether or not they are human. 21 when we examine that one in all them used to be fed a meal of cooked beef to envision no matter if he's god or human, that's suspiciously just like an episode within the Cuthean Legend of NaramSin (Güterbock 1938: 111–12; Mouton 2004), there's a holiday within the textual content, which choices up back in the intervening time while the mummy of Zuppa, one of many enemy leaders, having been coldly deserted by way of her son, is eaten by means of the savages. even if both of those episodes has any foundation actually, we will be able to see that because the Hittites driven into surprising territory they framed their encounters with the opposite as an competition among human and non-human. 22 therefore, the time period “manliness(es),” which Hattusili makes use of to explain his deeds, has a number of meanings, contrasting civilized people with savage animals and gods, and male with lady.