Ḫapantali

Ḫapantali or Ḫabandali, Luwish Ḫapantaliya or Ḫabandaliya, is a shepherd goddess and mistress of livestock. Although her name is of Luwian origin ( ḫāwa / ī luw. Sheep), she was also venerated by the Hatti and Hittites .

Ḫapantali is the companion of the goddess Inar . In other myths she is also connected to the divine ritual mistress Kamrušepa , but always stands in her shadow, for example in the incantation that was supposed to help the moon god Arma return to heaven when he fell from heaven.

Like Kamrušepa, she is a goddess of healing. She is also known as the "Queen of Remedies".

In her position as shepherdess, Ḫapantali grazes the flock of sheep that belong to the sun .

literature

• Volkert Haas : Die Hittitische Literatur , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-018877-5 , pp. 110 f., 120 f.
• 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. 39.
2. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 42.
3. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 238.
4. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 238.
5. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 42 f.
6. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 43.
7. ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature . Berlin 2006, p. 120 f.
8. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 239.
9. ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature . Berlin 2006, p. 110 f.