Nabarbi

Nabarbi, right, in Yazılıkaya

Nabarbi (in Ugarit : nwrw ) is a Hurrian goddess. She is the wife of Suwaliyat and is mentioned in the kaluti list of sacrifices before the goddess Suwala.

Her Hurrian name can be interpreted as Naw = ar = we "those of the pasture". Since her husband Šuwaliyat is a god of vegetation, she can thus be considered a goddess of the pasture.

In a Hurrian cleansing ritual, the cleansing water is called the Šawuška and Nabarbi.

literature

• Volkert Haas : Nabarbi. In: Dietz Otto Edzard (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . Volume 9, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998–2001, ISBN 3-11-017296-8 , pp. 1-2.
• Volkert Haas : History of the Hittite religion (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . Volume 1.15). Brill, Leiden 1994, ISBN 978-90-04-09799-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volkert Haas: History of the Hittite Religion ; BTE 1.15 (1994). P. 309