The later kingdom of Urartu also venerated gods of Hurrian origin.

The main gods in the Hurrian pantheon were:

The Hurrian myth “ The Songs of Ullikummi ”, preserved among the Hittites, is a parallel to Hesiod's Theogony ; the castration of Uranus by Cronus may be derived from the castration of Anu by Kumarbi, while Zeus's overthrow of Cronus and Cronus's regurgitation of the swallowed gods is like the Hurrian myth of Teshub and Kumarbi.

In comparison to the older oath the younger text shows that the Hittite pantheon was increasingly influenced by Hurrian gods.

In a treaty with the Hittites, the king of Mitanni, after swearing by a series of Hurrian gods, swears by the gods Mitrašil, Uruvanaššil, Indara, and Našatianna, who correspond to the Vedic gods Mitra, Varuṇa, Indra, and Nāsatya ( Aśvin ).

Hurrian clearly marks tense or aspect through special suffixes ( the unmarked form is the present tense ) whereas Urartian has not been shown to do so in the attested texts ( the unmarked form functions as a past tense ).

Symbols of the sun and the crescent moon appear joined together in the Hurrian iconography.

Assyrians maintained not only military and political control, but seem to have dominated trade as well, as no Hurrian or Mitanni names appear in private records of Shalmaneser's time.

The Hurrians spoke an ergative-agglutinative language, conventionally called Hurrian, ( unrelated to neighbouring Semitic or Indo-European languages ), which may have been a Language Isolate.

Several notable Russian linguists, such as S. A. Starostin and V. V. Ivanov, have claimed that the Hurrian and the Hattic were related to the Northeast Caucasian languages.

Texts in the Hurrian language have been found at Hattusa, Ugarit ( Ras Shamra ), as well as one of the longest of the Amarna letters, written by King Tushratta of Mitanni to Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

The Hurrian population of Syria in the following centuries seems to have given up their language in favor of the Assyrian dialect of Akkadian or, more likely, Aramaic.

This was around the same time that an aristocracy speaking Urartian, similar to old Hurrian, seems to have first imposed itself on the population around Lake Van, and formed the Kingdom of Urartu.

Not many examples of Hurrian metal work have survived, except from the later Urartu.

The name of the country of Ishuwa, which might have had a substantial Hurrian population, meant “ horse-land ”.

The Hurrian urban culture appears to have been quite different from the centralized state administrations of Assyria and ancient Egypt.

The Ibero-Caucasian group would also include three extinct languages: Hattic, which has been connected by some linguists to the Northwest ( Circassian ) family, and Hurrian and Urartian, which have been connected to the Northeast ( Nakh – Dagestanian ) family.

The Kassite language is thought to have been related to Hurrian, and not Indo-European or Semitic although the evidence for its genetic affiliation is meager due to the scarcity of extant texts.

Generally, these onomastic sources have been taken as evidence for a Hurrian expansion to the South and the West.

The poorly attested Kassite language may have been related to Hurrian.

It has also been proposed that two little known groups, the Nairi and the Mannae, might have been Hurrian speakers, but as little is known about them, it is hard to draw any conclusions about what languages they spoke.

It must have branched off from Hurrian approximately at the beginning of second millennium BC.

Besides their fairly consistent ergative alignment and their generally agglutinative morphology ( despite a number of not entirely predictable morpheme mergers ), Hurrian and Urartian are also both characterized by the use of suffixes in their derivational and inflectional morphology ( including ten to fifteen grammatical cases ) and postpositions in syntax ; both are considered to have the default order subject – object – verb, although there is significant variation, especially in Urartian.

The city is known to have been sacked by the Hittites under Suppiluliumas I ( reigned c. 1344 – 1322 BC ) in the first years of his reign, whose treaty inscription relates that he installed a Hurrian vassal king, Shattiwaza.

From the first publication of the Kingship in Heaven tablets scholars have pointed out the similarities between the Hurrian creation myth and the story from Greek mythology of Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus.

The Assyrians had better success than the Egyptians, annexing much Hittite ( and also Hurrian ) territories in these regions.

As Ea, Enki had a wide influence outside of Sumer, being equated with El ( at Ugarit ) and possibly Yah ( at Ebla ) in the Canaanite ' ilhm pantheon, he is also found in Hurrian and Hittite mythology, as a god of contracts, and is particularly favourable to humankind.

Hurrian kings such as Ithi-Teshup and Ithiya ruled over Arrapha, yet by the mid-fifteenth century BCE they had become vassals of the Great King of Mitanni.

By the thirteenth century BCE all of the Hurrian states had been vanquished by other peoples.

Harran was at least later a religious centre for the moon god, and Shauskha had an important temple in Nineve, when the city was under Hurrian rule.

The proto-language that is thought to be the ancestor of all Eastern Caucasian (" Alarodian ") languages, in fact, has words for concepts such as the wheel ( which is first found in the Central Caucasus around 4000 BCE-3000 BCE ), so it is thought that the region had intimate links to the Fertile Crescent ( many scholars supporting the thesis that the Eastern Caucasians originally came from the Northern Fertile Crescent, and backing this up with linguistic affinities of the Urartian and Hurrian language to the Northeast Caucasus ).

It is widely held by various authors that Nakh nations had a close connection of some sort to the Hurrian and Urartian civilizations in modern day Armenia and Kurdistan, largely due to linguistic similarities ( Nakh shares the most roots with known Hurrian and Urartian )- either that the Nakhs were descended from Hurrian tribes, that they were Hurrians who fled north, or that they were closely related and possibly included at points in the state.

Hurrian is a conventional name for the language of the Hurrians ( Khurrites ), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC.

It turned out that the majority of Tunip-Tessup's Habiru soldiers had Hurrian names that could not be explained in any Canaanite language ( the family which Hebrew belongs to ) or any other Semitic language.

After Shattiwazza had been made a vassal ruler of Hanigalbat, Suppiluliuma gave to Piyassili the Hurrian name Sarri-Kusuh and the territory of Ashtata ( with the cities of Ekalte, Ahuna and Terqa ) and Carchemish, formerly belonging to Hanigalbat.

His inscriptions mention the conquest of nine fortified temples ; 180 Hurrian cities were " turned into rubble mounds ", and Shalmaneser "… slaughtered like sheep the armies of the Hittites and the Ahlamu his allies …".

The name Ea is allegedly Hurrian in origin while others claim that it is possibly of Semitic origin and may be a derivation from the West-Semitic root * hyy meaning " life " in this case used for " spring ", " running water.

Ninti, the title of Ninhursag, also means " the mother of all living ", and was a title given to the later Hurrian goddess Kheba.

The name Ea is allegedly Hurrian in origin while others claim that it is possibly of Semitic origin and may be a derivation from the West-Semitic root * hyy meaning " life " in this case used for " spring ", " running water.

Urartian is also characterized by the apparent reduction of some word-final vowels to schwa ( e. g. Urartian ulə vs Hurrian oli " another ", Urartian eurišə vs Hurrian evrišše " lordship ", Hurrian 3rd person plural enclitic pronoun-lla vs Urartian-lə ).

Abdi-Heba's name can be translated as " servant of Hebat ", a Hurrian goddess.