Ite deities: Pirwa, Askasepa and the Queen (3.2.6). Maliya is summoned offen to

Gether with a group of associated divinities; in the Hurrianized environment of Kiz-

zuwatna she was accompanied by the Human Kuzzina-Kuzpazena. ** One of the

Inventory texts describes a cult Statuette of the river Maliya made of iron and rep-

Resenting her in female guise 624 Maliya engendered parfcicuiar respect among the

Luwians of Southern Asia Minor. At Kummani, main town of Kizzuwatna, the pan

Theon of which was dominated by Human deities (see 3.2.5), she had her own

Temple. She continued to be worshiped in the first millennium BC. In bilingual texts

From Lycia of the fourth Century BC, her Greek counterpart is Athena Polias who

appears as a tutelary goddess of many towns. 6 "° Another important aspect of the

Nature of Maliya comes through in a ritual from the early Empire period, during which

Tarljunt was summoned to ensure the growth of a royal vineyard, then offerings were

made to the Sun-god, Kamrusepa, Telipinu and Maliya of the Garden, ealled ‘mother of

KUB 17.8 iv, Kellerman. 1987b; Hoffner 1998: 32.

620 Cf, the writing of the goddess’s name as D Kam~ma~ru-$e-pa (e.g., KBo 9.127+ i.12; KUB 17.10 ii

KUB 43.63, 15), Goetze 1953: 266.

821 Lebrun 1982; Franfcz-Szabö 1987--1990; Haas 1994b: 78f.; Hutter 2003: 231f.

622 IBoT 3.1 rev. Haas — Wäfler 1976: 88ff.; Yoshida 1996: 124,

Haas 1994a: 468, 850, 856.

KUB 38,33 obv. 5.

Laroche 1980: 4f.; Lebrun 1987a: 242; Popko 1995a: 173.

Hittite Anatolia

wine and grainA" The Maliyanni or small Maliya goddesses, invoked in a ritual en-

suring the fertility of a vineyard, can be assumed to be hypostases of this goddess. 62 '

Such multiplied divine hypostases of lower rank, called upon most often in folk

Beliefe, are typical of cult practices in Southern Asia Minor and northem Syria and

Concern Luwian, Hurrian and Syrian gods alike. They often. take on demonic prop-

Erties. The s texts mention similar allomorphs of Sarrumma — Sarrum(m)anni, 6 “ 8

Alanzu - Aianzunni, and of the maidservants of Sauska, Ninatta and Kulitta (3.2.5)

- Ninattanni and (in Assyrian sources) Kulittanni. 629 Groups were formed also by

Multiplication or doubling (tripling) of a god. Their cult spread in central and north

Em Asia Minor with the coming of the Luwian element and changes in Hittite relig-

Ion during the Empire period. Suffiee it to recall Ilaliyantee (Palaic llalivantikes)

and Ilali(ya), Annarumenzi / Innarawantes and Annari / Innara, Darawanzi / Darawes

And Darawa (see also 3,2.5), the pair of demonic Hantasepa deities mentioned in

The Old Hittite magical ritual (CTH 416) demonstrating ties with the Luwian envi-

Ronment (3.1.4), and three Ammamma goddesses residing in the sea, connected with

Zalpa, but originating probably from the Coastal area of the Mediterranean 6 ' 3 ' (3.2.3).

Other deities were also worshiped in particular lands of the extensive Luwian

Territory. In Arzawa there was Tarhunt at the head of the pantheon, but a major

Role was also played by the goddess of Vegetation and wild animals, Uliliyassi, the

Western Luwian counterpart of the Hurrian Sauska of the Countryside (°ISTAE

LIL), b ' summoned in a Paskuwatti ritual. 632 The ritual texts from Istanuwa, which

Should be located somewhere on the Western outskirts of the Lower Land, are evi-

dence for an autonomy of indigenous cults and beliefe. 6 '' 3 The local pantheon com-

prised, beside the Storm-god Tarhunt and the Sun-god Tiwad, the ‘Great LAMMA

God,’ lyarri, Telipinu, divinities from the Kanesite sphere - Pirwa, Askasepa and

KUB 48,23 rev. 51, Haas 1988d: 137.

Haas 1988d: 138fr.

Schwemer 2001: 4861. Cf. KUB 15.1 ii 28f.: “0 two Sarrummanni-s and one Aianzunni, you who

from the womb of the god (= Sarrumma) are sprung,” de Roos 2007: 92, 100.

Haas 1981h; 1994a: 313, 470.

630 The goddesses Ammamma of Zalpa mav be compared with the Southern Anatoüan Mamma /

Mammaimi. Cf. Fopko 2004a: 251 n, 18.

Cf. Wegner 1981: 31.

CTH 406, Hoffner 1987b.

633 Starke 1985: 294ff,; Hutter 2003; 239f£.

The Empire Period

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Maliya, Grain-goddess Halki, and numerous locally worshiped deities: Kinaliya,

v _ Q%4 635

Gurnuwala, Sahiriya river, Tarwalliya, ’ Winiyanta, a deity connected with wine,“