Among the tablets brought to light in the excavations of Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittites, mythological texts were found, both related to ritual, translated or adapted from other cultures, such as Akkadian or Canaanite, or even with texts magical Practically all of them are translated in this work, each accompanied by introductions that place them in context and that provide the keys to understanding and interpreting them.

The central interest of the book, Hittite myths. Between East and West, it has been above all to place the Hittite myths in their cultural context and in an evolutionary line that goes from their origins, which in some cases are found in the rites of the population on which they were imposed, the háticos, and in many others they are found in neighboring literatures, such as Mesopotamia, which exerted their influence on the Hittite world through the Hurrians, even the echoes of these stories that we can find in the classical world and even in more recent times.