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Takitu, Takiti or Daqitu was a Hurrian goddess who served as the sukkal (attendant deity) of Ḫepat. She appears alongside her mistress in a number of Hurrian myths, in which she is portrayed as her closest confidante. Her name is usually assumed to have its origin in a Semitic language, though a possible Hurrian language etymology has also been proposed. She was worshiped in Hattusa, Lawazantiya and Ugarit.
On the basis of the Ugaritic form of the name it has been proposed that it was derived from the Semitic root dqq, "small". It can accordingly be translated as "the small one". Meindert Dijkstra instead suggested that it might be connected with the Hurrian word taki, "beautiful".
While in myths the role of Ḫepat's attendant belongs to Takitu, in some ritual texts it instead belongs to Tiyabenti, a deity whose gender is unclear according to Gary Beckman, but identified as a goddess by Marie-Claude Trémouille. According to Alfonso Archi, Tiyabenti's name has Hurrian origin and means "he who speaks favorably" or "she who speaks favorably". Takitu and Tiyabenti coexist in offering lists, where both can accompany Ḫepat, which according to Marie-Claude Trémouille indicates that theories according to which one of them was merely an epithet of the other are unsubstantiated.
An offering lists focused on the circle of Ḫepat refers to Takitu as Taki-Takitu, "the beautiful Takitu". According to Volkert Haas, she was imagined as a youthful deity.
Locations where Takitu was worshiped include Hattusa, where a staff serving as a cultic utensil connected to her was held, Lawazantiya in Kizzuwatna, and Ugarit. In the last of these cities, she is attested in a number Hurrian offering lists, either in her standard place after Ḫepat, after Ninatta and Kulitta and before Nikkal, or in one case after Hutena and Hutellura as the last deity listed. She also appears in a number of texts written in the Ugaritic language in an alphabetic script. She is mentioned in the very first text discovered during the excavations in 1929, a ritual taking place over the course of two days, partially at night. She received an ewe as an offering during it, after the local goddess Pidray and before Tiraṯu, the god of wine. She is also mentioned in a deity list, which similarly places her after Pidray and before Tiraṯu.
Takitu also appears in the Song of Ullikummi, where Ḫepat tasks her with finding out the fate of her husband Teshub after his initial confrontation with the eponymous monster. Later Ḫepat's servants have to hold her to make sure she does not fall from the roof while Teshub's brother Tashmishu brings her information about his fate.
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