Kamrusepa
Sign in to saveKamrušepa was a Hittite and Luwian goddess of medicine and magic, analogous to Hattic and Palaic goddess Kataḫzipuri. She is best known as one of the deities involved in the Telepinu Myth, in which her actions were crucial to pacify the anger of the "missing" vegetation god.
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- Deity.equivalent2
- Gula
- Deity.type
- Hittite
- Deity.name
- Kamrušepa
- Deity.cult_center
- Kanesh, Taniwanda,
- Deity.god_of
- Goddess of magic and medicine
- Deity.symbol
- iron throne
- Deity.consort
- Tiwad
- Deity.children
- Aruna and the tutelary god of Tauriša
- Deity.equivalent1_type
- Hattian
- Deity.equivalent1
- Kataḫzipuri
- Deity.equivalent2_type
- Mesopotamian
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Kamrušepa was a Hittite and Luwian goddess of medicine and magic, analogous to Hattic and Palaic goddess Kataḫzipuri. She is best known as one of the deities involved in the Telepinu Myth, in which her actions were crucial to pacify the anger of the "missing" vegetation god.
==Character== Kamrušepa was the goddess of both magic and medicine. She was regarded as the inventor of various procedures, subsequently passed on to humans, as attested in mythical explanations attached to ritual texts. She could function as a divine midwife as well. It is possible she was a household deity due to her connection with family life and the hearth.
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