[3][4] The same name was used in almost all Anatolian languages: Luwian Tarḫunz-; Carian Trquδ-; Milyan Trqqñt-, and Lycian: Trqqas (A), Trqqiz (B).

Thus it was Tarḫunna who decided whether there would be fertile fields and good harvests, or drought and famine and he was treated by the Hittites as the ruler of the gods.

[8] Tarḫunna legitimised the position of the Hittite king, who ruled the land of Hatti in the name of the gods.

There he is depicted as a bearded man with a pointed cap and a sceptre, standing on the backs of the mountain gods Namni and Ḫazzi and holding a three-pronged thunderbolt in his hand.

In Hattian (a non-Indo-European language), he was called Taru; in Luwian, Tarḫunz (Cuneiform: Tarḫu(wa)nt(a)-, Hieroglyphic: DEUS TONITRUS);[17] in Palaic, Zaparwa; in Lycian, Trqqas/Trqqiz;[17] and in Carian, Trquδe (dat.).