> tidanu and sutean > citing michael heltzers 1981 book the suteans, annus continues: > "in ugaritic literature suteans are mentioned in the epic of aqhatu, where the antagonist of the mt rpi dnil [man of the rephaim, daniel] is a nomadic ytpn, mhr twarrior of the sut, sutean warrior. in the epic of keret suteans are mentioned as dtn, spelled also as ddn, and it must be understood as the di/tidnu tribe, a part of common amorite stock. it is even likely that this term was used in mesopotamia at the end of the 3rd millennium to designate tribes later known as suteans. > highlight that! the ugaritic epic of keret, which dates to the time of the judges in israel, connects the amorite sutean tribe, the sons of sheth from balaams prophecy, with the ditanufrom which the greeks got the name of their old gods, the titans! > heres one more bit of historical evidence for your consideration: the shutu are also identified in later egyptian texts as the shasu, probably as language and pronunciation changed over the centuries. about two hundred years after the exodus, ramesses ii (the great) fought an epic battle against the hittites at qadesh, a city on the orontes river near the modern border between syria and lebanon. according to the egyptian account of the battle, ramesses encountered a pair of shasu nomads who told him the hittites were about 125 miles away, near aleppo, because the hittite king, muwatalli ii, was (too much) afraid of pharaohto come south. > turned out that was a lie. the shasu had been sent by the hittites to fool the egyptians into relaxing their guard, a ruse that was discovered when a member of ramesses bodyguard arrived with two shasu prisoners who admitted that the full hittite army waswell, right over there
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