Anna (goddess)
Anna is an ancient Anatolian goddess who was worshiped in the Karum Kaneš during the ancient Assyrian colonization .
Anna is the main goddess of Kaneš, who is documented for Layer II. She appears as an oath deity in contracts between Assyrian traders and Anatolian trading partners right next to the Assyrian god Aššur . Possibly she is hidden behind the epithets "goddess of the city" and "goddess of Kaneš". The King of Kaneš visited Anna's temple on the day of her festival, which took place early in the year. In the 19th and 18th centuries BC In BC Anna was replaced by a weather god as the city deity of Kaneš and the sworn deity of the treaties, which is also reflected in the written material of layer Ib. This is probably related to the increased worship of weather gods in Syria and northern Mesopotamia over the same period.
A goddess named Anna is also mentioned in texts from the Hittite Empire, especially in connection with Luwian cults. This goddess Anna, who does not necessarily have to be identical with Anna of Kaneš, but perhaps just had the same name, is one of those deities who were worshiped in Ḫupišna in the entourage of the goddess Ḫuwaššanna .
literature
- Piotr Taracha : Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05885-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 28.
- ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 29 f.
- ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 28.
- ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 48.
- ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 117.