Lada

Lycian 'mother of the gods' (ẽni mahanahi); 'lada' = woman/wife. Worshipped at the Letoon and identified with Greek Leto.

Children

• Ertemi
• Natri

Domains

• motherhood

Powers

• Reign as the divine mother over all the gods

Epithets

• ẽni mahanahi Lycian · eni mahanahi · cultMother of the Gods / of this sanctuaryLycian inscriptions of the Letoon, Xanthos (eni mahanahi) (primary)

Relations

• equated with: LetoReciprocal of greek_hesiod_leto.equated-with — The Lycian national mother (eni mahanahi) was identified with Leto at the Letoon, anchoring the Greek Leto-in-Lycia myth. Preserves mother-of-the-divine-twins; the native goddess is a general mother-of-gods.T. R. Bryce, The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources (1986), on the Letoon (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Trmmili Texts, Lycian Divinities corpus (descot21.github.io) (secondary)