Natri

Natri is the male member of the Lycian divine triad centred on the Letoon sanctuary near Xanthos, appearing in native inscriptions as the child of the mother-goddess Eni Mahanahi and as the counterpart of Ertemi. In the Hellenistic reinterpretation of Lycian religion the trio was read as Leto, Artemis and Apollo, and Natri was accordingly identified with Apollo. His role in the strictly Lycian-language record appears comparatively marginal, and the identification rests on the correspondences preserved in the bilingual and trilingual monuments of the fourth century BCE.

Parentage

• Lada

Domains

• tutelary divinity
• oracular prophecy

Powers

• to deliver oracles at the Letoon sanctuary

Sources

• H. Craig Melchert, A Dictionary of the Lycian Language (Ann Arbor & New York: Beech Stave Press, 2004)
• Trevor R. Bryce, The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1986)
• Antony G. Keen, Dynastic Lycia: A Political History of the Lycians and Their Relations with Foreign Powers, c. 545–362 B.C. (Leiden: Brill, 1998)