Natri
Lycian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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
- parent: Lada
Domains
- tutelary divinity
- oracular prophecy
Powers
- to deliver oracles at the Letoon sanctuary
Sources
- Natri is the native Lycian god named alongside the mother-goddess Eni Mahanahi and Ertemi, identified with Greek Apollo in the bilingual and trilingual documents of Xanthos and the Letoon.: H. Craig Melchert, A Dictionary of the Lycian Language (Ann Arbor & New York: Beech Stave Press, 2004) (secondary); Trevor R. Bryce, The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1986) (secondary); 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) (secondary)