"Helen of Troy can't be black!!!! The historical inaccuracy!"
This new movie's probably gonna have all the characters speaking English, too... not the lore-accurate, canonical Archaic Myceanean/Luwian/Hittite.
I bet that'll equally be a problem for these brainlords.
This new movie's probably gonna have all the characters speaking English, too... not the lore-accurate, canonical Archaic Myceanean/Luwian/Hittite.
I bet that'll equally be a problem for these brainlords.
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
"Helen of Troy can't be black!!!! The historical inaccuracy!"
This new movie's probably gonna have all the characters speaking English, too... not the lore-accurate, canonical Archaic Myceanean/Luwian/Hittite.
I bet that'll equally be a problem for these brainlords.
This new movie's probably gonna have all the characters speaking English, too... not the lore-accurate, canonical Archaic Myceanean/Luwian/Hittite.
I bet that'll equally be a problem for these brainlords.
Maybe I split the difference and take the book about Hittite literacy on holiday with me.
February 2, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Maybe I split the difference and take the book about Hittite literacy on holiday with me.
Also Greeks would've objected to Helen portrayed as being genuinely in love with Paris rather than divinely brainwashed, and Trojans portrayed as equals rather than quasi-Hittite foreigners.
February 1, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Also Greeks would've objected to Helen portrayed as being genuinely in love with Paris rather than divinely brainwashed, and Trojans portrayed as equals rather than quasi-Hittite foreigners.
Every single Hittite Emperor shot out of their graves at that one lmao
February 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Every single Hittite Emperor shot out of their graves at that one lmao
How far back are gold prices tracked? Would be cool if one could write "largest drop in gold since the Hittite Emperor Telipinu made an edict saying Gold merchants are possessed by demons"
Largest drop in gold since 1983, largest drop in silver...ever? Maybe? Silver down 25%, gold down 10%, absolute chaos.
January 30, 2026 at 6:08 PM
How far back are gold prices tracked? Would be cool if one could write "largest drop in gold since the Hittite Emperor Telipinu made an edict saying Gold merchants are possessed by demons"
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag, ca. 14th–13th century BCE
Culture: Hittite
Medium: Silver, gold inlay
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327399
Culture: Hittite
Medium: Silver, gold inlay
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327399
February 3, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag, ca. 14th–13th century BCE
Culture: Hittite
Medium: Silver, gold inlay
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327399
Culture: Hittite
Medium: Silver, gold inlay
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327399
Hittite word of the day:
Āškaz ("outdoors, outside", literally "out of the door/gate", ablative).
Āškaz ("outdoors, outside", literally "out of the door/gate", ablative).
January 23, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Hittite word of the day:
Āškaz ("outdoors, outside", literally "out of the door/gate", ablative).
Āškaz ("outdoors, outside", literally "out of the door/gate", ablative).
Some Hittite asshole establishing a new dynasty after murdering their brother-in-law: I'm a genius!
Same guy three years later when his cousin stabs him in the gut: Oh no!
Same guy three years later when his cousin stabs him in the gut: Oh no!
Bronze Age Mesopotamian politics are so fucking funny because you're seeing people create empires out of first principles and then immediately fuck up, thus setting a precedent for the next 4000 years.
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Some Hittite asshole establishing a new dynasty after murdering their brother-in-law: I'm a genius!
Same guy three years later when his cousin stabs him in the gut: Oh no!
Same guy three years later when his cousin stabs him in the gut: Oh no!
you came for the weird fucked up kink content? good *cracks knuckles* time to give a four-hour lecture on how the rapid collapse of the neo-hittite state was a result of poor zero-sum-thinking foreign policy decisions exacerbated by the manifold external stressors of the late bronze age collapse
January 21, 2026 at 4:21 AM
you came for the weird fucked up kink content? good *cracks knuckles* time to give a four-hour lecture on how the rapid collapse of the neo-hittite state was a result of poor zero-sum-thinking foreign policy decisions exacerbated by the manifold external stressors of the late bronze age collapse
that's the thing, is that the Hittites were actually early pioneers in diplomatic correspondence; the big problem was that they mostly used it to try and threaten city-states into submission (another issue is that the message wasn't always clear what with Hittite Cuneiform being its own weird thing)
January 21, 2026 at 6:05 AM
that's the thing, is that the Hittites were actually early pioneers in diplomatic correspondence; the big problem was that they mostly used it to try and threaten city-states into submission (another issue is that the message wasn't always clear what with Hittite Cuneiform being its own weird thing)
Come join us! It's a Hittite-flavored mashup of Archipelago III and Dogs in the Vineyard with some Desperation mixed in as a treat. Your dad might be a giant boulder and also a god. Maybe you'll fight an eagle-headed giant. Somebody will probably complain about property lines and water rights.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Come join us! It's a Hittite-flavored mashup of Archipelago III and Dogs in the Vineyard with some Desperation mixed in as a treat. Your dad might be a giant boulder and also a god. Maybe you'll fight an eagle-headed giant. Somebody will probably complain about property lines and water rights.
Tablet found in Hittite region, new Indo-European language.
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Tablet found in Hittite region, new Indo-European language.
did you know 'emily' is probably cognate with hittite '𒄭𒅎𒈠𒀸' / 'ḫi-im-ma-aš' meaning 'substitute/imitation/replica'
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 AM
did you know 'emily' is probably cognate with hittite '𒄭𒅎𒈠𒀸' / 'ḫi-im-ma-aš' meaning 'substitute/imitation/replica'
When mountain guerillas fight an empire for four centuries and then outlive it by a half a thousand years:
The Kaska: The Hittite Nemesis from the North
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJ3...
The Kaska: The Hittite Nemesis from the North
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJ3...
The Kaska: The Hittite Nemesis from the North
YouTube video by Dig.
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:54 AM
When mountain guerillas fight an empire for four centuries and then outlive it by a half a thousand years:
The Kaska: The Hittite Nemesis from the North
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJ3...
The Kaska: The Hittite Nemesis from the North
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJ3...
I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Joshua 1:3-4
January 10, 2026 at 11:35 AM
I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Joshua 1:3-4
"Naomi Harris, a scholar of Hittite literature, reads her translations of three works that first appeared on tablets dating back as far as the fifteenth century B.C.E. Harris’s three translated poems appear in our recent Fall issue (no. 253)."
www.instagram.com/reels/DPOtkn...
www.instagram.com/reels/DPOtkn...
January 10, 2026 at 6:56 AM
"Naomi Harris, a scholar of Hittite literature, reads her translations of three works that first appeared on tablets dating back as far as the fifteenth century B.C.E. Harris’s three translated poems appear in our recent Fall issue (no. 253)."
www.instagram.com/reels/DPOtkn...
www.instagram.com/reels/DPOtkn...
The first article of this issue is by Ada Taggar Cohen, entitled "Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War: The Case of King Saul, Biblical and Hittite Descriptions." avarjournal.com/avar/article...
Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War
| Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East
avarjournal.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
The first article of this issue is by Ada Taggar Cohen, entitled "Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War: The Case of King Saul, Biblical and Hittite Descriptions." avarjournal.com/avar/article...
Hittite Big D. A follow-up to the Sumerian one.
I'll be making more of these, based on different historical eras, probably up to the Victorian era or the early 1900s.
#htp #HuntertheParenting #fanart #bronzeage
I'll be making more of these, based on different historical eras, probably up to the Victorian era or the early 1900s.
#htp #HuntertheParenting #fanart #bronzeage
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Hittite Big D. A follow-up to the Sumerian one.
I'll be making more of these, based on different historical eras, probably up to the Victorian era or the early 1900s.
#htp #HuntertheParenting #fanart #bronzeage
I'll be making more of these, based on different historical eras, probably up to the Victorian era or the early 1900s.
#htp #HuntertheParenting #fanart #bronzeage
“Translation, like scholarship, is an interpretive process. You have to decide what aspect of a word or a sentence to convey.”
University of Chicago PhD student Naomi Harris shares her experience translating 3000-year-old Hittite poetry into English. At UChicago News:
University of Chicago PhD student Naomi Harris shares her experience translating 3000-year-old Hittite poetry into English. At UChicago News:
How 3,000-year-old poems landed in a top literary magazine
With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay tablets to "The Paris Review"
news.uchicago.edu
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“Translation, like scholarship, is an interpretive process. You have to decide what aspect of a word or a sentence to convey.”
University of Chicago PhD student Naomi Harris shares her experience translating 3000-year-old Hittite poetry into English. At UChicago News:
University of Chicago PhD student Naomi Harris shares her experience translating 3000-year-old Hittite poetry into English. At UChicago News:
it's interesting that Ancient Egyptian (Coptic ⲟⲩⲟⲉⲓ /woy/ < <wy> */way/) and Proto-Indo-European (*wáy) have the exact same "woe!" interjection.
this seems like either a wanderwort or one of those para-linguistic utterances that keep reinventing themselves (papa, mama, caca)
this seems like either a wanderwort or one of those para-linguistic utterances that keep reinventing themselves (papa, mama, caca)
![wiktionary page for *wai: Descendants
Proto-Anatolian: *uwáy
Hittite: [script needed] (uwai)
Albanian: vaj
Proto-Balto-Slavic: *wái, *uwái
Latvian: vai
Lithuanian: vai̇̃
Proto-Slavic: *uvy
Proto-Celtic: *wai (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Germanic: *wai (see there for further descendants)
>? Proto-Hellenic: *wái
>? Ancient Greek: αἴ (aí), αἶ (aî), αἰαῖ (aiaî), οἴ (oí), οἶ (oî), ὀῐ̈́ (oĭ̈́) — Ionic
>? Ancient Greek: οὐαί (ouaí) (possibly)
Proto-Indo-Iranian: *wáy, *uwáy
Proto-Indo-Aryan: *uwáy
Sanskrit: उवे (uvé)
Kashmiri: وای (wāy)
Proto-Iranian: *wáy
Avestan: 𐬬𐬀𐬫𐬋𐬌 (vayōi)
Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (wʾd /wāy/), 𐫇𐫀𐫏 (wʾy /wāy/)
Persian: وای (vây)
→ Turkish: vay
Parthian: 𐫇𐫀𐫏 (wʾy /wāy/)
Zazaki: way
→ Old Armenian: վայ (vay)
Armenian: վայ (vay)
Proto-Italic: *wai
Latin: vae (see there for further descendants)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26gfiesadzjgf44w2dv5yeo7/bafkreidvjlicmhitlsi4am4nzml55vdcoxviza45rqcxe3kc2tgppntrmq@jpeg)
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
it's interesting that Ancient Egyptian (Coptic ⲟⲩⲟⲉⲓ /woy/ < <wy> */way/) and Proto-Indo-European (*wáy) have the exact same "woe!" interjection.
this seems like either a wanderwort or one of those para-linguistic utterances that keep reinventing themselves (papa, mama, caca)
this seems like either a wanderwort or one of those para-linguistic utterances that keep reinventing themselves (papa, mama, caca)
#Critterary 4
#TheDragonblood: The ancient people of Nemoros had tales of the Ēlluamvis, a giant serpent. The tales about it share a common history with the Hittite tales of Illuyanka.
The name was then applied to Missadeiuos' dragon form. (1/2)
#TheDragonblood: The ancient people of Nemoros had tales of the Ēlluamvis, a giant serpent. The tales about it share a common history with the Hittite tales of Illuyanka.
The name was then applied to Missadeiuos' dragon form. (1/2)
Day 4
Alright, time for something a little different - cryptids! Either the traditional examples of this world's Sasquatch, etc., or folklore from your story, where such things are just make-believe tales... or are they?🤔
#Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
Alright, time for something a little different - cryptids! Either the traditional examples of this world's Sasquatch, etc., or folklore from your story, where such things are just make-believe tales... or are they?🤔
#Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
January 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
#Critterary 4
#TheDragonblood: The ancient people of Nemoros had tales of the Ēlluamvis, a giant serpent. The tales about it share a common history with the Hittite tales of Illuyanka.
The name was then applied to Missadeiuos' dragon form. (1/2)
#TheDragonblood: The ancient people of Nemoros had tales of the Ēlluamvis, a giant serpent. The tales about it share a common history with the Hittite tales of Illuyanka.
The name was then applied to Missadeiuos' dragon form. (1/2)
Spending a good chunk of last night reading about imperial overreach in classical antiquity (Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Roman...) and then waking up to this news cycle is... something.
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Spending a good chunk of last night reading about imperial overreach in classical antiquity (Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Roman...) and then waking up to this news cycle is... something.
It’s a mythologized story yes, but as far as archeologists can tell there was an actual Trojan war fought around the time the Iliad and Odyssey claims, this is mainly cooperated by the records kept by the Hittite Empire and battlefield remains found near the location of Troy.
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
It’s a mythologized story yes, but as far as archeologists can tell there was an actual Trojan war fought around the time the Iliad and Odyssey claims, this is mainly cooperated by the records kept by the Hittite Empire and battlefield remains found near the location of Troy.
Hittite slender man: My brother, I tell you my tablets are scattered. My tablets are scattered across the land, my brother. Locate my tablets my brother. This I say! This I say!
January 2, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Hittite slender man: My brother, I tell you my tablets are scattered. My tablets are scattered across the land, my brother. Locate my tablets my brother. This I say! This I say!
Tlos, an ancient Lycian city of Tlawa and apparently the Hittite Dalawa, was later associated with the mythic Bellerophon. The site includes remains of a stadium, theater, temple, and early Byzantine church. Tlos was a bishopric in Late Antiquity.
Snow could be seen on Taurus Mountains today.
Snow could be seen on Taurus Mountains today.
January 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Tlos, an ancient Lycian city of Tlawa and apparently the Hittite Dalawa, was later associated with the mythic Bellerophon. The site includes remains of a stadium, theater, temple, and early Byzantine church. Tlos was a bishopric in Late Antiquity.
Snow could be seen on Taurus Mountains today.
Snow could be seen on Taurus Mountains today.