Kamrušepa

Kamrušepa is the house and healing goddess of the Hittites and Luwians . It was known to the Hatti and Palaers as Kataḫzipuri or Kataḫziwuri. She was equated with the Mesopotamian goddess of healing Gula .

tasks

Kamrušepa is also the goddess of sorcery. She is a divine midwife who helps women and children with childbirth, but also a healer who knows about cleansing magic. In this sense she is the patroness of the family and the household.

She is considered to be the inventor of some rituals. For example, she manages to appease Telipinu with a ritual. She also helps the moon god Arma to ascend to heaven again with a ritual.

Kamrušepa was also associated with the domestic stove, with fire and smoke. That is why Volkert Haas interprets her name as "Herdgenius" ( Hittit. Kamara- "Rauch" + Hittit. -Š / zipa "Genius").

Family and place of residence

The Palaern similar to the kamrusepa was Kataḫzipuri with the palaischen weather gods Zaparwa connected.

In the city of Tauriša, however, she was the wife of the Luwian sun god Tiwad and the mother of the patron god ( Sumerogram LAMMA) with the Luwian nickname wašḫazza- ("consecrated, holy").

Heaven was considered to be Kamrušepa's home. Like the sun god of the sky, she drove a horse-drawn cart.

See also

• Anzili
• Gulšeš
• Ḫannaḫanna
• Ḫudena Ḫudellura

literature

• Volkert Haas : Die Hittitische Literatur , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-018877-5 , pp. 104, 110, 120 f., 205.
• 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

1. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 58.
2. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 43.
3. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 150.
4. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 115.
5. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 43.
6. ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature. Berlin 2006, p. 110 f.
7. ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature. Berlin 2006, p. 120 f.
8. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 114 f.
9. ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 240.
10. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 58.
11. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 100.
12. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 115.
13. ↑ Piotr Tararcha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 114.