Iyaya

Iyaya is a Hittite and Luwian goddess who was worshiped together with the source goddess Kuwannaniya.

Cults

Iyaya was especially venerated in the places of Lapana and Tiura. According to a Hittite cult image description, her wooden statuette in Lapana was a seated veiled goddess with two standing mountain sheep to the left and right of her throne. In the city of Wanata she was worshiped together with the local weather god and in Taparuta with the god Šanta , possibly her Paredros .

In the city of Annitešša an autumn festival was celebrated for Iyaya and Kuwanniya, at which both deities were sacrificed a sheep, as well as flour and beer. Beer was served at the festival.

Iyaya as a woman's name

According to Anatolian custom, people could also have a pure god name, such as Queen Iyaya, wife of the Hittite great king Zidanta II. The god name may also be found in the Pisidian female name Iaie (Ιαιη).

Individual evidence

↑ Volkert Haas: History of the Hittite religion . Brill 1994. ISBN 978-9-004-09799-5 . P. 502
↑ Joost Hazenbos: The local autumn and spring festivals in the late Hittite period , in Manfred Hutter: Official religion, local cults and individual religiosity , Ugarit-Verlag (2004). ISBN 3-934628-58-3 . Pp. 241-248
↑ Thomas Zehnder: "The Hittite women's names". ISBN 978-3447061391 . P. 168f.

literature

Volkert Haas : History of the Hittite religion (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . Sect. 1 The Nahe and the Middle East. Vol. 15). Brill, Leiden et al. 1994, ISBN 978-9-004-09799-5 .

[1] Volkert Haas: History of the Hittite religion . Brill 1994. ISBN 978-9-004-09799-5 . P. 502

[2] Joost Hazenbos: The local autumn and spring festivals in the late Hittite period , in Manfred Hutter: Official religion, local cults and individual religiosity , Ugarit-Verlag (2004). ISBN 3-934628-58-3 . Pp. 241-248

[3] Thomas Zehnder: "The Hittite women's names". ISBN 978-3447061391 . P. 168f.