Shaushka
Hurrian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Highest-ranked goddess of love and war, equated with Ishtar; associated with Nineveh. Attended by handmaidens Ninatta and Kulitta. In the Song of Hedammu she seduces and intoxicates the monster.
Parentage
- paternal: Kumarbi
Domains
- love
- war
- healing incantation
Powers
- Bewitch and pacify foes through allure and music
Epithets
- Šauška Ninuwawa 'Shaushka of Nineveh' — her chief cult-seat epithetHittite prayers and treaties (e.g. CTH 75) (primary)
Relations
- sibling: AranzahFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Kumarbi) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: HedammuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Kumarbi) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: TasmisuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Kumarbi) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: TeshubFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Kumarbi) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: UllikummiFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Kumarbi) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- equated with: InannaShaushka is written dIŠTAR in Hittite-Hurrian texts and holds Ishtar of Nineveh's cult. Preserves the love-war-Venus complex, ambiguous gender included; Shaushka adds healing and her two handmaidens.G. Wilhelm, The Hurrians (1989) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Song of Hedammu; Hurrian cult texts (primary)