Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Hannahannas" | Hittite / Hurrian | Mother goddess. Described as the great mother. In the legend of TELEPINU, the missing god, she sends a bee to locate him. When the bee stings Telepinu to awaken him, the god vents his rage on the natural world. NOTE: the priestesses of the Phrygian mother goddess KYBELE were, according to the Roman writer Lactantius, melissai or bees.... |
Goddess name "Kamrusepa" | Hittite / Hurrian | Goddess of healing. Mother of Aruna. Involved in the legend of TELEPINU, the missing vegetation fertility god.... |
God name "Tarhunt" | Hurrian / Anatolian | weather god. Known from inscriptions as the father of TELEPINU.... |
God name "Taru" | Hittite / Hurrian | weather god. Known from inscriptions and equating with ISIKUR. Probably of Hurrian origin.See also TARHUNT; TELEPINU.... |
God name "Telepinu[s]" | Hittite | God of fertility Hittite / Hurrian |