Anzili

Anzili or Enzili is a Hittite goddess who was worshiped in Tamita and Zapišḫuna. It is also written with the accadogram IŠTAR or combined as IŠTAR- li .

The goddess Anzili is considered in Konurma as the concubine of the weather god of Zippalanda . Otherwise she is also the concubine of the weather god of Šarišša . In Kuliwišna she was worshiped together with the local weather god and the LAMMA patron god.

Anzili appears in midwifery rituals together with the goddess Zukki. Like many other Hittite deities ( Telipinu , the sun goddess of Arinna , Inar , the kurša hunting bag , Ḫannaḫanna , the Gulšeš and various weather gods such as the weather god of Kuliwišna), Anzili and Zukki belong to the deities whose temporary disappearance is lamented in myths. This disappearance of the deity is related to their anger, and the deity must be appeased in order to bring about its return. It is the same with Anzili and Zukki. In their anger that precedes the disappearance, the two goddesses put their shoes on so that the left shoe is on the right foot and the right shoe is on the left foot. They also put their clothes on upside down so that the needles are on their backs. Then the two rushed away from the people. The wrongly dressed clothes can be seen as a portent of the order of the cosmos, disrupted by the disappearance of the goddesses.

literature

Volkert Haas : History of the Hittite religion (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . Volume 1.15). Brill, Leiden 1994, ISBN 978-9-004-09799-5 .
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

^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 56.
^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 56, 117.
^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 56.
^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 117.
^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 156.
^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 155 f.
↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 270 f.

[1] Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 56.

[2] Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 56, 117.

[3] Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 56.

[4] Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 117.

[5] Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 156.

[6] Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 155 f.

[7] Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 270 f.