In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpentine dragon slain by Tarhunt (dIM), the Hittite incarnation of the Hurrian god of sky and storm. It is known from Hittite cuneiform tablets found at Çorum-Boğazköy, the former Hittite capital Hattusa. The context is a ritual of the Hattian spring festival of Puruli.
The myth is found in Catalogue des Textes Hittites 321, which gives two consecutive versions.
See also Etymology of eel. Illuyanka is probably a compound, consisting of two words for "snake", Proto-Indo-European *h₁illu- and *h₂eng(w)eh₂-. The same compound members, inverted, appear in Latin anguilla "eel". The *h₁illu- word is cognate to English eel, the anka- word to Sanskrit ahi. Also this dragon is known as Illujanka and Illuyankas.
In the first version, the two gods fight and Illuyanka wins. Teshub then goes to the Hattian goddess Inaras for advice. Having promised her love to a mortal named Hupasiyas in return for his help, she devises a trap for the dragon. She goes to him with large quantities of food and drink, and entices him to drink his fill. Once drunk, the dragon is bound by Hupasiyas with a rope. Then the Sky God Teshub appears with the other gods and kills the dragon.
Wide open mind is clear
A distant voice emerges
from the deep luxuriant forest
The almighty force of ancients pervades my soul
Wide open Fate is clear
They are calling me - resistance is futile
The chains of blood are teased
the time of salvation has come
An enormous green and dark flame
burns the insane fears
There is a surrounding magic around here
The skin loses its epidermic fear
Short flashback of the past infamous life
abhorred reduced to ashes
"The future is awaiting for my coming
long paths in several wrong places
For the transgressor of the cosmic order law
False Messiahs (bringer) of corrupted values
will triumph In the mind of the empty mass
But the eternal salvation is far beyond
where no pathway goes
A fusion in deep spiritual walk between
the cosmic essence And Nature through blood"
The Ancestral spirit evoked emerges
from the frozen tomb of mankind
The broken continuity became a loud memory
I crushed the wall of time
I crushed the dominion of illusions
the past is alive
"The almighty force of ancients pervades my soul
I am the wolf - the obscure abyss and cave