Hittite-Hurrian nurses, obstetricians and midwives goddesses

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The Hurrian and Hittite mythology know a variety of different nurse, obstetrician and midwife goddesses.

Hurrian nurses, obstetricians and midwives goddesses
  • Ḫudena Ḫudellura : a pair or collective of Hurrian mother and fate goddesses who serve as divine midwives.
  • Irširra : a collective of Hurrian nurse goddesses.
Hittite nurses, obstetricians and midwives goddesses
  • Daraweš and Gulšeš : Collective Hittite-Luwian midwives and goddesses of fate.
  • Anzili and Zukki : two Hittite goddesses of childbirth.
  • Kamrušepa : a Hittite-Luwian house and healing goddess who also serves as a divine midwife.
  • Ḫannaḫanna : a Hittite mother goddess who serves as a divine midwife.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Piotr Taracha : Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, p. 125, ISBN 978-3-447-05885-8 .
  2. ^ Alfonso Archi: The Anatolian Fate-Goddesses and their Different Traditions. In: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum , Jörg Klinger, Gerfrid GW Müller (Eds.): Diversity and Standardization. Perspectives on Social and Political Norms in the Ancient Near East. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 1–26, ISBN 978-3-05-005756-9 .
  3. ↑ Volkert Haas , Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, p. 198, ISBN 978-3-525-51695-9 .