Hebat
Hurrian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Hurrian mother-goddess and queen of heaven, consort of Teshub; mother of Šarruma. Equated by the Hittites with the Sun-goddess of Arinna; cult at Kummanni and Aleppo.
Children
Domains
- queenship of the gods
- motherhood
Powers
- Reign as queen alongside the storm-king
Epithets
- Ḫepat šarraššiḫ 'Hebat the Queen' — mother-goddess, queen of heaven, consort of TeshubHittite festival texts; Yazılıkaya relief no. 43-46 (primary)
- Ḫebat Ḫalbaḫi Hebat of Aleppo (Ḥalab)Hittite-Hurrian cultic geography (Aleppo cult of Hebat) (secondary)
Relations
- interpretatio: EstanReciprocal of hattic_estan.interpretatio — Puduhepa: 'Sun-goddess of Arinna, my lady... in the land of the cedar you bear the name Hebat.' An explicit ancient equation of the Estan-derived Arinna goddess with Hebat; Hebat is no solar deity.Prayer of Puduhepa, CTH 384 (KUB 21.27 i 3-6) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Hurrian ritual texts; Yazılıkaya reliefs (primary)