[6] A description of a silver statuette presumed to represent him states that he held a shield and a mace in his hands; the latter weapon is also attested as his symbol in other texts.
[1] According to Piotr Taracha [de] in Hattian tradition Wurunkatte was also associated with the ideology of kingship, similarly to the deified throne Ḫanwašuit (called Ḫalmašuit in Hittite).
[8] Taracha suggests that both his presumed role as a kingship deity and the meaning of his name might indicate that he had a special position in the Hattian pantheon prior to the rise of weather gods in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries BCE, a phenomenon attested in sources from Hattusa and Kanesh.
[4] According to Piotr Taracha, it is also possible that when after the temporary loss of the city Hittites returned to it, a new temple has been built for him, as references to a new house of worship dedicated to a deity designated by the logogram dZABABA are known.
[1] Itamar Singer has proposed that a deity apparently belonging to the pantheon of the Kaška people designated by the logogram dZABABA in a Hititte treaty might also be Wurunkatte.
[18] He assumed that the Kaška constituted a remnant of Hattian culture not absorbed by the Hittite state and pushed to the north.