Judgment before gods is a well-known motive in Hittite literature. The king Hattušli III says to his nephew Urhi-Tešub: "Let us go in judgment before the Storm-God My Lord and Šaušga of Samuha, My Lady. If you prevail in the trial, they will raise you; but if I prevail int he trial, they will raise me". One is impressed by the fact that the Hittite prayers often resemble a judicial process conducted before a court composed of gods, where the prosecutor is an angry deity. The defendant can use the "services" of a "divine lawyer" requested to act as an intercessor on his behalf; the court of justice is the assembly of gods. For instance, the queen Puduhepa asked the goddess Lelwani to relay the good word on behalf of her husband Hattušli III to the gods, her peers.
Marijana Ricl, “Continuity and Change in Anatolian Cults: The Case of Lydian Confession-Inscriptions” (2014), Belgrade Historical Review 5: 7-21
