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72 In the royal Hittite archives, archaeologists have in fact discov- ered royal seals depicting the chief Hittite deity embracing the Hit- tite king (Fig. 17), exactly as described in the Egyptian record, even including the inscription surrounding the border of the seal. Against all odds, the original treaty itself, inscribed on two tablets in the Akkadian language, was also found in these archives. But the Hittite texts called their chief deity Teshub, not "Seth of Hatti." Since Teshub meant "Windy Storm." and Seth (to judge by his Greek name Typhon) meant "Fierce Wind," it appeared that the Egyptians and Hittites were matching their pantheons ac- cording to the epithet-names of their gods. In line with that, Teshub's spouse HEBAT was called "Lady of the Skies" to paral- lel the goddess by that title in the Egyptian version of the treaty; Ra (The Bright One") was paralleled by a Hittite "Lord of the Sky" whom the Akkadian version called SHAMASH ("The Bright One"), and so on. The Egyptians and the Hittites, it became evident, were match- ing separate, but parallel, pantheons; and scholars began to wonder what other ancient treaties would reveal. One that provided surpris- Fig. 17 THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN