Ḫakmiš
Ḫakmiš (also Ḫakpišša ) was a Hittite city in Central Anatolia, the exact location of which is unknown. It was north of the capital Ḫattuša and south of the important cult city Nerik .
After the loss of Nerik to the Kaškäer , who "neglect the service of the gods", the Hittite king Arnuwanda I (Middle Kingdom) and his queen Ašmunikal moved the service to Ḫakmiš. Later put Muwattalli II. His brother Ḫattušili III. as viceroy in Ḫakmiš. From there he recaptured Nerik.
The local cults in Ḫakmiš clearly show the hattic character. The gods mentioned include the vegetation god Telipinu and his wife Ḫatepinu , Ḫuzziya, Ḫuwattašši and various weather gods, such as the weather god of thunderstorms ( Tarḫunna ḫaršiḫaršiyaš ) or that of rain ( T. ḫeyawaš ). When it thundered for the first time in spring, the local spring festival was opened and the weather god of the meadow was carried to the ḫuwaši stele , where a cattle and a sheep were sacrificed to him. On the feast of the weather god of rain, when a vessel was thrown out on the ground, the following was prayed:
"Weather god sir, make rain in large quantities. Saturate the dark earth! "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joost Hazenbos : The local autumn and spring festivals in the late Hittite period , in Manfred Hutter: Official religion, local cults and individual religiosity , Ugarit-Verlag (2004). ISBN 3-934628-58-3 . P. 245
literature
- Volkert Haas : Ḫakmiš (ša) / Ḫakpiš (ša). In: Dietz Otto Edzard (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1972–1975, ISBN 3-11-006772-2 , pp. 49–50.