Ammamma

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Ammamma or mom is a Hattic - Hittite goddess.

Ammamma is believed to be a goddess of nature, fertility and wildlife. She is a grandmother goddess , whose name is formed from a double of Hittite amma- = mother (?). The name Ammamma or Mamma can also be a hattic epithet denoting various goddesses who were at the forefront of various local panthea in central and northern Anatolia.

The cult of goddesses with the name Ammamma or Mamma is particularly attested in the Hittite heartland around the capital Ḫattuša and in regions further north. Ammamma occupied a prominent place in the Taḫurpa pantheon , but was also venerated in etwaanḫana , Kašḫa and Zalpa . In a city of unknown name, the goddess Mamma stood together with the weather god at the head of a pantheon, which otherwise largely consisted of Luwian deities ( sun god , Kamrušepa , LAMMA patron god , Ala ,Telipinu , Maliya and their companions, earth, sun goddess of the earth ). The Ammamma of Taḫurpa is named among the oath deities of state treaties of the Hittite Empire. She can be found there together with the goddess Kattaḫḫa , who could have taken on similar tasks. In Zalpa, Ammamma had her own temple. There is a myth associated with this city that tells of three goddesses named Ammamma who live in the sea. This is reminiscent of the South Anatolian group of goddesses known as Mamma or Mammaimi.

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  1. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 53.
  2. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 224.
  3. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 97.
  4. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 53.
  5. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 97.
  6. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 101.
  7. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 86.
  8. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 97.
  9. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 105.
  10. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 116.