Innara (
Cuneiform
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: ) is the
Hittite god of woods and fields.
Inar is mentioned in the
Hahhima-myth. There
Tarhun sends Inar to look for
sun god Istanu, but the ice devil Hahhima freezes Inar. Inar's tasks are similar to the tasks of the god of wild animals and hunting,
Kurunta
Kurunta () or Kurunti(ya) is the Hittite mythology, Hittite stag god and a tutelary god of the countryside.
Name
The name of Kurunta is spelled as (DEUS)CERVUS in Hieroglyphic Luwian, or as dKAL in Hittite cuneiform. As dKAL has to be read ...
.
Name
In the
Luwian language
Luwian (), sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The ethnonym Luwian comes from ''Luwiya'' (also spelled ''Luwia'' or ''Luvia'') – ...
, Innara is called Annari.
The name of the god comes from the word ''innara-'', meaning "power, strength", which itself comes from ''*h₁en-h₂nor-o-'', a
Proto-Indo-European word meaning "having masculinity", from the root ''*h₂ner-'' 'man'.
[ Kloekhorst, Alwin. ]
Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon
'. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 5. Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, 2008. pp. 448-449.
References
Bibliography
* Piotr Taracha: ''Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia''. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, .
Hittite deities
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