Hatepuna
Hattic · deity · mythic · deity
Hatepuna (Ḫatepuna, Ḫatepinu; at Zalpa perhaps in the form Ḫalipinu) is a Bronze Age Anatolian goddess of Hattian origin, worshipped by Hittites and also venerated among the Kaška. She is understood as the daughter of the sea-god and as the wife of Telipinu, whose consort she is in the cults of Kašḫa and the Ḫanḫana region, and like her husband she was probably an agricultural deity. In the myth of Telipinu and the daughter of the sea-god, the Sea gives his daughter to Telipinu, and when her father later demands a bride-price the Storm-god, advised by the mother-goddess Hannahanna, pays a thousand cattle and a thousand sheep for the bride. Her name is commonly explained from Hattic as 'child of the sea'.
Domains
- agriculture and vegetation
Powers
- to further the prosperity of fields and flocks
Relations
- consort of: Telipinu
Sources
- Volkert Haas, Geschichte der hethitischen Religion (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/15), Leiden: Brill, 1994
- Piotr Taracha, Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia (Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie 27), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009
- Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Writings from the Ancient World 2), Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998