Immarni

Immarni is a Luwian deity who was probably responsible for raising cattle.

The name Immarni is an extension of Luwisch im (ma) r- »field, corridor, steppe«.

Immarni is mentioned in a Hittite birth ritual. After the baby is born, the ritual mistress enters a cattle pen and demands a billy goat from Immarni. The various parts of the newborn's body are opposed to this. Then the goat is sacrificed so that any illnesses in these parts of the body in the world of the dead can pass to the earth's sun goddess .

In the myth of the disappearance of the vegetation god Telipinu , the angry god takes along with him, besides grain, growth and satiety, also Immarni.

In the Hittite city of Karaḫna , whose cults show clear Luwian influences, the collective of gods Immarnizza was worshiped together with other deities and received a sheep sacrifice.

Related deities, whose names were formed from the same word, are Immaršiya in Ištanuwa and Imralla in the cult of the goddess Ḫuwaššanna .

See also

• Imrassi Runtiya

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Garry M. Beckmann: Hittite birth rituals . StBoT 29 (1983). ISBN 3-447-02310-4

literature

• Garry M. Beckmann: Hittite birth rituals . StBoT 29 (1983). ISBN 3-447-02310-4
• Heinrich Otten : Immarni. In: Dietz Otto Edzard (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . Volume 5, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1976–1980, ISBN 3-11-007192-4 , p. 73.