Hannahanna

The Hittite 'Grandmother,' a primeval mother- and birth-goddess (identified with the Mesopotamian-Hurrian Hannahanna/Nintu) who resolves the disappearing-god crises by sending the bee to find and rouse the lost deity. Associated with childbirth and destiny.

Domains

• motherhood and fate
• childbirth

Powers

• Dispatch the bee to find the vanished god
• Preside over childbirth and decree destiny

Epithets

• Ḫannaḫanna Hittite · Hannahanna · cultGrandmotherHittite (Hattic) onomastics (secondary)

Relations

• helper of: TelipinuSends the bee that finds and rouses the vanished Telipinu, breaking the blight.Telipinu Myth (CTH 324) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Telipinu Myth (CTH 324) (primary); Hoffner, Hittite Myths (1998) (secondary)