Ḫudena Ḫudellura

The Ḫudena Ḫudellurra (in Ugarit : ḫdn ḫdlr ) are Hurrian goddesses of birth and fate, who are also worshiped by the Hittites and are represented in the Hittite rock shrine of Yazılıkaya .

The Ḫudena Ḫudellura are mother goddesses who serve as divine midwives and guardians of pregnant women.

You accompany the underworld goddess Allani and decide together with her about the fate of a child when it is born. If a person dies at a young age, the Ḫudena Ḫudellura are blamed for it.

The exact number of Ḫudena Ḫudellura is unclear. Either there are two goddesses, Ḫudena and Ḫudellura, who are worshiped together as a unit, or there are more goddesses who together form the collective of the Ḫudena Ḫudellura.

Similar deities

The Irširra are a collective of Hurrian nurse goddesses similar to the Ḫudena Ḫudellura. The god Kumarbi entrusts them with the task of looking after his son, the stone giant Ullikummi and placing him on the shoulder of the world-bearing giant Ubelluri .

In the Hittite religion, the Ḫudena Ḫudellura correspond to the Gulšeš and the originally Hattic goddesses Ištuštaya and Papaya .

literature

• Volkert Haas : Die Hittitische Literatur , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018877-6 .
• Piotr Taracha : Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05885-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 95.
2. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 119.
3. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 125.
4. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 109.
5. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 124 f.
6. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 158.
7. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 128.
8. ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 125.
9. ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature. Berlin 2006, p. 162 f.