The storm god of Anatolia
Every tool here is sealed with the triple lightning of Tarḫunna —
chief god of the Hittites, worshipped in the land now called Turkey more than
three thousand years before anyone typed curl.
The name
Tarhun appears across Bronze Age Anatolia under close variants: Tarḫunna to the Hittites, Tarḫunz to the Luwians. The name comes from the Hittite verb tarḫu- — "to prevail, to conquer, to overcome." A god literally named The One Who Prevails. For a box of tools whose whole job is getting you past a problem, the etymology does most of the work.
One honest note: Tarhun belongs to the Anatolian (Hittite–Luwian) pantheon, an Indo-European tradition native to the peninsula — not to Turkic mythology, whose sky father is Tengri. Turkic peoples reached Anatolia some two and a half thousand years after Tarhun's temples fell. This site honors the oldest storm god of the land itself.
The god
Tarḫunna headed the Hittite pantheon beside the Sun goddess of Arinna. He was the weather itself — thunder, lightning, and the rain the harvest depended on. Art shows him with a triple lightning bolt in one hand and an axe or mace in the other, riding a chariot drawn by sacred bulls. Under Hurrian influence he merged with the storm god Teshub, whose bulls even had names: Šerri and Ḫurri — Day and Night.
His best story is a debugging session. The dragon Illuyanka defeats him in their first fight. Tarhun doesn't overpower the problem — he retries with help, a plan, and a feast as bait, and kills the dragon on the second attempt. The Hittites retold this every spring at the Puruli festival. First run fails; iterate; ship.
Still standing in stone
You can visit him. At İvriz near Konya, an 8th-century-BC rock relief shows the Luwian Tarḫunz holding wheat and grapes — the storm god as provider, cut into the cliff face and legible after 2,800 winters. At Yazılıkaya, the rock sanctuary outside the Hittite capital Ḫattuša, he leads the procession of the gods. Both are a day trip from anywhere in central Anatolia.
Why a storm god runs a toolbox
The tools on this site follow three rules drawn from the name: they strike fast (static pages, no bloat), they stay private (everything runs in your browser — nothing is stored or sent), and they prevail (each does one job properly). The mark on every page is his triple lightning, drawn in the bronze of the age that made him.