Kamrušepa

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Kamrusepa was a Hittite and Luwian goddess of medicine and magic. She is mostly known as one of the deities involved in the Telepinu Myth, whose actions were crucial to pacify the anger of the "missing" vegetation god according to Hittite beliefs. The Luwians seemingly regarded her as analogous to Mesopotamian Gula.[1] She was also connected to the earlier Hattic and Palaic goddess Katahzipuri, though they were not identical.[2][3]

As part of a ritual application of the Telepinu myth she was said to enlist the help of a human to perform a ritual to remove said god's anger. She used the following ingredients during her ritual: ceder essence, sap, chaff, grain, sesame, figs, olives, grapes, ointment, malt, honey, cream and oil. Upon completion of the ritual she sacrificed 12 rams of the sun gods and directed Telepinu's anger into the Underworld.[4]

According to the Hittite text KUB 17 she's the mother of the sea.[5] She was however regarded as a deity residing in heaven,[6] unlike her son, depicted as an ally of Kumarbi and other chthonic figures in myths. She was believed to travel in a chariot drawn by horses, similar to the Luwian storm god.[7] It's been proposed she was connected to clouds or smoke, based on a possible origin of her name.[8]

See also[]

  • Hittite mythology

References[]

  1. ^ P. Taracha, Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia, 2009, p. 150
  2. ^ G. Frantz-Szabó, Kamrušepa [in:] Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie vol. 5, 1980, p. 351
  3. ^ G. Frantz-Szabó, Katahzipuri [in:] Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie vol. 5, 1980, p. 478
  4. ^ Wilkinson, Philip (2007). Eyewitness Companions: Mythology. United Kingdom: Penguin. p. 316. ISBN 978-0756642211.
  5. ^ G. Frantz-Szabó, Kamrušepa [in:] Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie vol. 5, 1980, p. 351
  6. ^ P. Taracha, Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia, 2009, p. 115
  7. ^ P. Taracha, Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia, 2009, p. 114
  8. ^ G. Frantz-Szabó, Kamrušepa [in:] Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie vol. 5, 1980, p. 351: "Genius der Wolke/des Qualms"

Further reading[]

  • Archi, Alfonso. "Kamrušepa and the Sheep of the Sun-God." Orientalia, NOVA SERIES, 62, no. 4 (1993): 404-09. www.jstor.org/stable/43078000.
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