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My son has a paper due monday and he has to pick a artifact from a time period. He chose Hitties. I'm trying to help him out but I've been out of school for 25 years and really having trouble here..
Ok the artifact that he has chosen is: "A Hatti Bronze Ceremonial Standard dated from around 2300BC. Its a Hittie Deer Figure.
What he has to find out is what type it is (established)
The date of the artifact (established)
Who created it (established)
Why was the artifact created? (not established)
What does the existence of this document say about whoever created it (not established)
A picture of the artifact can be found at : TurkeyTravelPlanner.com
Its 3 deer standing in a circular object.
I know this probably sounds crazy to even post and ask this but like I said I've been out of school for 25 years and Im really rusty when it comes to stuff like this..
This is a 6th graders homework
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Did you mean Hittites? If yes, Try the following link
http://history-world.org/hittites.htm

You can also go to Yahoo or Google search and type Hittites to find more information about them.

Answer 2

Deer have significant roles in the mythology of various peoples.

In paleolithic cave paintings the figure of a shaman wears antlers as the deer-spirit, notably the figure being called "The Sorcerer" in the Cave Trois Frères in southern France. The Celts had Cernunnos (possibly the horned figure on the Gundestrup cauldron) and Caerwiden, from which neo-pagans synthesized the figure of the Horned God. The stag was worshipped alongside the bull at Alaca Höyük and continued in the Hittite mythology as the protective deity whose name is recorded as dKAL. Other Hittite gods were often depicted standing on the backs of stags.

In Jewish mythology - as discussed in the Talmud (חולין נט ע"ב) - exists a giant kind of stag by the name "Keresh". He is said to live in a mythical forest called "Divei Ilai".

The Scythians had some reverence for the stag, which is one of the most common motifs in their artwork, especially at funeral sites. The swift animal was believed to speed the spirits of the dead on their way, which perhaps explains the curious antlered headdresses found on horses buried at Pazyryk (illustrated, to the right).

In Greek mythology, the deer is particularly associated with Artemis in her role as virginal huntress. Callimachus, in his archly knowledgeable "Hymn III to Artemis", mentions the deer that drew the chariot of Artemis:

in golden armor and belt, you yoked a golden chariot, bridled deer in gold.
One of the Labors of Heracles was to capture the Cerynian Hind sacred to Artemis and deliver it briefly to his patron, then rededicate it to Artemis. Actaeon witnessed Artemis bathing in a pool and was transformed into a stag that his own hounds tore to pieces.

In Norse mythology, the four stags of Yggdrasill feed on the world tree. The stag Eikþyrnir lives on top of Valhalla. The god Freyr killed Beli with an antler.

In Slavic mythology and folklore, Golden-horned deer is a large deer with golden antlers which often appear in fairytales. The legend of Saint Hubertus (or "Hubert") concerned an apparition of a stag with the crucifix between its horns, effecting the worldly and aristocratic Hubert's conversion to a saintly life.

Deer are considered messengers to the Gods in Shinto, especially Kasuga Shrine in Nara Prefecture where a white deer had arrived from Kashima Shrine as its divine messenger. It has become a symbol of the city of Nara.

It is sometimes thought that stories about spectral deer may be the based upon tales of the now extinct Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus).

For the Huichol people of Mexico, the "magical deer" represents both the power of maize to sustain the body and of the peyote cactus to feed and enlighten the spirit. Animals such as the eagle, jaguar, serpent and deer are of great importance to the Mexican indigenous cultures. For each group, however, one of these animals is of special significance and confers some of its qualities to the tribe. For the Huichol it is the deer that holds this intimate role. The character of the Huichol tends to be light, flexible and humorous. They have avoided open warfare, neither fighting against the Spanish nor Mexican governments, but holding to their own traditions. The Huichol hunt and sacrifice deer in their ceremonies. They make offerings to the Deer of the Maize to care for their crops, and to the Deer of the Peyote to bring them spiritual guidance and artistic inspiration

The spirit Furfur in The Goetia is depicted as a hart or winged hart.


[edit] Manufactured mythology
Quintus Sertorius, while a general in Lusitania, had a tame white stag which he had raised nearly from birth. Playing on the superstitions of the local tribes, he told them that it had been given to him by the goddess Diana; by attributing all his intelligence reports to the animal, he convinced the locals that it had the gift of prophecy. (See Plutarch's life of Sertorius and Pliny the Elder's chapter on stags (N.H., VIII.50)

The naming of the ship, the "Golden Hind", of Sir Francis Drake is sometimes given a mythological origin, though Drake actually renamed his flagship, in mid-voyage, 1577, as a gesture to flatter his patron Sir Christopher Hatton, whose armorial bearings included the crest "a hind Or." In heraldry, a "hind" is a doe.

The television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys featured centaur-like "hinds" (creatures with upper bodies like women and lower bodies like hinds). Their blood was poisonous to the Greek gods, by nullifying their ichor. (Compare Kryptonite's effect on Superman.)

Answer 3

I'm not going to even help and here's why.

You shouldn't be doing you son's homework. Much less, asking strangers to do it, because you can't even do it.

Seriously, make your kid do it. Otherwise, you'll be doing it till he's out of high school and he won't be able to handle it. 6th grade is too old.

I'm sure someone else here will give you the answers anyway.

Answer 4

go to wikipedia and type it in

Answer 5

http://www.hittitemonuments.com/