Pinikir
Elamite · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Astral goddess of love and the sky, 'Commander of Heaven'; a cosmopolitan deity later absorbed into the Hurrian pantheon as Ishtar.
Domains
- love and sex
- the stars
- sky
Powers
- Command the heavens as sovereign of the sky
- Shine as the astral planet Venus
- Shining as the planet Venus
Epithets
- kik(ki) galirra Mistress of HeavenBeckman, on Pinikir; Wikipedia citing Hurrian ritual texts (secondary)
Relations
- interpretatio: InannaIn the Hattusa babilili-ritual the Elamite astral goddess Pinikir/Pirinkir is written dIŠTAR and treated as an Ishtar-type. Preserves the Venus 'Commander of Heaven'; her Elamite consort-ties drop away.Hittite babilili-ritual, CTH 718 (Pirinkir written with the IŠTAR logogram) (primary); G. Beckman, The babilili-Ritual from Hattusa (2014) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Old Elamite treaty of Naram-Sin; Hattusa Akkadian–Hurrian rituals (primary); Encyclopaedia Iranica, ELAM vi. Elamite religion (secondary)