The Authentic Orthography
Wild Animals, Hunt · The goddess who outwitted the dragon Illuyanka
Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison
𒀭𒄿𒈾𒊏
The name in its original Hittite form. Inaras (𒀭𒄿𒈾𒊏) is attested in the source tradition — “Unknown”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
inaras
The plain inaras form is identical to the Unicode restoration. Because this name is already written in Latin letters, no diacritics, stress, or script information were lost — only capitalization differs.
Inaras
The Unicode restoration does not need to recover lost marks for Inaras. Its value is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the reconstruction of erased orthography. The domain is readable as-is to both DNS and humanity.
Inaras.com → inaras.com
The non-ASCII characters in Inaras are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Inaras.
How Inaras travels from ancient script to the modern URL
Owned, ideal, and ASCII forms of Inaras
Inaras
Restores 𒀭𒄿𒈾𒊏. The full Unicode restoration. inaras.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.
How Inaras was spoken
Wild Animals · Hunt · Steppe
Inaras is the Hittite goddess of the wild animals and the open steppe. She appears most dramatically in the Myth of Illuyanka, where she persuades a mortal named Ḫupašiya to help her trap the dragon that has defeated the storm-god. Her domain is the untamed country beyond the city: the grazing herds, the swift gazelles, and the dangerous borderlands where civilization meets wilderness.
She rules the wild herds and the creatures of the steppe.
She devises the feast that lures the dragon Illuyanka to his doom.
Her home is the open grassland, not the palace or the temple.
She knows the ways of animals and the arts of the chase.
Stories of Inaras
Inaras is best known from a single, brilliant episode, but that episode reveals a goddess of cunning, sovereignty over animals, and alliance between divine and mortal.
After the storm-god Tarḫunash is defeated by the dragon Illuyanka, Inaras takes action. She prepares an enormous feast of beer, wine, and every kind of food, then goes to the mortal Ḫupašiya and proposes a bargain: if he helps her trap the dragon, she will sleep with him. Ḫupašiya agrees. The dragon and his children eat and drink until they cannot return to their hole, and Ḫupašiya binds them so that Tarḫunash can destroy them.
The myth places a mortal at the center of divine victory. Inaras does not defeat the dragon alone; she enlists human cunning and desire. After the deed she warns Ḫupašiya not to look out the window while she is away, but he disobeys and sees his family. The story ends with the establishment of a ritual in memory of the event.
As goddess of the wild animals, Inaras guarantees the abundance of game and the balance between human hunters and animal herds. Her domain is the dangerous, fertile margin between the settled land of Hatti and the wilderness beyond.
The myth of Illuyanka was not only entertainment; it grounded an annual festival in which the defeat of the dragon was ritually re-enacted. Inaras's cunning was thus remembered every year as the beginning of the storm-god's renewed power.
Inaras is the goddess of the edge: the place where the city ends and the steppe begins, where human craft meets animal instinct, and where cunning can defeat strength. Her story warns that even a dragon's power can be undone by appetite, and that the wild is not simply chaos but a realm with its own sovereign.
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