" The background, like the name Telepinus, is Hattian. The Hittite versions were composed in connection with various rituals; in other words, the recitation of the myth played a fundamental part in the cult. Since the beginning of the narrative6 is lost, we do not know why Telepinus decides to “disappear.” Perhaps it is because men have angered him. But the consequences of his disappearance immediately make themselves felt. Fires go out on hearths, gods and men feel “stifled”; "

― Mircea Eliade , A History of Religious Ideas 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries