Zašḫapuna
Zašḫapuna or Zaḫapuna is a Hattic - Hittite goddess. She is the city goddess of Kaštama .
The goddess Zašḫapuna is considered the wife of the mountain god Zaliyanu , who nonetheless also has a co-sleeper named Tazzuwašši . Zašḫapuna and her husband Zaliyanu are considered greater than the weather god of Nerik . Zašḫapuna also exceeds Zaliyanu in importance. In addition to her original cult city Kaštama, she was also venerated in Tanipiya and, after the introduction of the cult there, also in Nerik . In an invocation ritual of the weather god of Nerik, it is the task of Zašḫapuna to wake him up from the dream like a bird with a sweet message, just as she does with Zaliyanu. After the return of the weather god of Nerik from his 200-year exile in Kaštama to Nerik, his cult image was placed on a pedestal together with the cult image of the goddess Zašḫapuna. However, the goddess remained the wife of Zaliyanu, while the weather god of Nerik was still associated with the goddess Tešimi . Zašḫapuna got its own temple in Nerik.
literature
- Volkert Haas : The Hittite literature . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018877-6 .
- 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
- ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 44.
- ↑ Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: Religions of the ancient Orient: Hittites and Iran . Göttingen 2011, p. 238.
- ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature. Berlin 2006, p. 100 f.
- ↑ Volkert Haas: The Hittite literature. Berlin 2006, p. 269 f.
- ^ Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Wiesbaden 2009, p. 1048.