Ḫalmašuit

Ḫalmašuit , hattish Ḫanwašuit, was the hattish - Hittite divine personification of the throne . She was never depicted anthropomorphically.

The cult city of Ḫalmašuit was Ḫarpiša . Anitta von Kaneš also built a temple for the goddess of the throne in his city and accepted her as the patron goddess of his dynasty.

According to the myth, Halmašuit, the goddess of the throne, lives in the mountains. She was the protector of the king, brought his administration and his traveling carriage ( ḫuluganni carriage) with her from the sea. At the purulliya festival, she instructs “well-informed” weavers who ritually cleanse the royal family. Her messenger is the eagle , through which she communicates with the goddesses of fate Ištuštaya and Papaya , who spin the king's thread of life.

literature

• Volkert Haas : The Hittite literature. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-018877-5 , pp. 30, 198.
• Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch : Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-51695-9 .
• Piotr Taracha : Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05885-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 48.
2. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 61.
3. ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature. Berlin 2006, p. 198.
4. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 30.
5. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 48.
6. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 48.
7. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 210.
8. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 77.