Ḫatepuna

Ḫatepuna , also Ḫatepinu , is a hattic goddess.

Your name possibly contains hattish ḫan "sea" (meaning not certain), and pinu "child" and could then be interpreted as * ḫan = te = fin "the sea's daughter". Another name for them is Ḫalipinu. Ḫatepuna is the daughter of the sea ​​god and becomes the consort of the god Telipinu in the course of the salvation of the sun ( Ištanu ) from the hands of the sea god . Telipinus father, the weather god Tarḫunna , and the sea god then agree on a bride price through the mediation of the goddess Ḫannaḫanna . Ḫatepuna's place of worship was in Maliluḫa.

literature

• Volkert Haas : The Hittite literature. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-018877-5 , pp. 115 f., 198.
• Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-51695-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 235.
2. ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature . Berlin 2006, p. 116.
3. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 235.