Hurraya
Canaanite · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
Hurraya is what the war was for. Kirta's family has been destroyed — the epic opens on a king with no line at all — and El tells him in a dream where to go and what to ask for. He besieges Udum, refuses the ransom, and takes her, and she bears him the children the story needed. She is not a cipher in the poem: when Kirta falls ill it is her grief, and Thitmanat's, that the text lingers on, and Thitmanat's speech at her father's sickbed is one of the most-quoted passages in Ugaritic literature.
Parentage
- parent: Pabil
Children
Relations
- consort of: KirtaKirta's wife, obtained by siege. The epic's whole first movement exists to get her into his house, because he has lost every child he had and needs an heir.Reference treatment of the Kirta epic, on Kirta's marriage to Hurraya and the children she bears him. (secondary)
- mother of: YassibMother of Yassib.Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its royal family. (secondary)
- mother of: IlhuMother of Ilhu.Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its royal family. (secondary)
- mother of: ThitmanatMother of Thitmanat.Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its royal family. (secondary)
Sources
- Hurraya is the daughter of Pabil of Udum whom Kirta takes as his wife at the end of the siege, and the mother of his children, including Yassib, Ilhu and Thitmanat.: The Kirta epic. (primary); Reference treatment of the Kirta epic, naming Hurraya and the children. (secondary)