best local significance, and as a result were easily incorporated into the religion of the Hurrians when they arrived in the same area a few centuries later. Hebat is mentioned in a letter from Mari, in which an anonymous woman mentions she will pray for king Zimri-Lim to her and a weather god (dIŠKUR), possibly Teshub. She is also known from a text from Halab, according to which she was worshiped alongside Dagan and Shalash in the pagrā'um ritual, part of a mourning ceremony. In later times, Hebat was the highest ranked Hurrian goddess in the traditions of Halab and the kingdom of Kizzuwatna, where she was worshiped in Kummanni and Lawazantiya. However, she only acquired this position by displacing Shaushka from her position attested in sources from most Hurrian centers in the east, such as Nuzi. Hebat's position was also relatively low in the Hurrian pantheon of Ugarit, where Shaushka retained the role of the foremost goddess. While Hebat was not regarded as one of the major deities of the eastern Hurrian polities, she was also not entirely unknown there, as she appears in theophoric names of Mitanni princesses and relatives of a prince of Nuzi. One ceremony dedicated to Hebat was concerned with the concept of allašši, "ladyship," analogous to Teshub's ceremony of šarrašši, "kingship." In Hurrian sources, various paraphernalia connected to the cult of Hebat could be worshiped too, for example her throne. Hittite and Luwian reception Hebat was among the Hurrian and Syrian deities incorporated into the Hittite state pantheon. She is mentioned for the first time in Hittite sources in an account of Ḫattušili I's expedition against Ḫaššum, during which he seized the statues of deities worshiped in this Hurrian polity, among them this goddess, but also Lelluri, Allatum, Adalur and the storm god of Halab. King Muršili II introduced the worship of Hebat to Katapa, where he resided near the end of his reign. During the reign of Tudḫaliya IV, she was worshiped alongside other deities associated with Teshub during a section of the taking place in the temple of Kataḫḫa. There is also some evidence that the worship of Hebat spread to cities located in the north of the Hittite sphere of influence, including Hurma and Uda. Hebat is depicted on the central relief of the Hittite Yazilikaya sanctuary, dedicated to the worship of deities of Hurrian origin, alongside Teshub. She stands on