Hipta
deity sky Lydian single tradition · 2
Hipta was a goddess known from Lydia and from later Orphic sources. She is sometimes presumed to be a late form of Ḫepat, representing a continuation of her worship in different cultural contexts.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 700 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 300
- Historical notes
- Lydian and Orphic goddess sometimes presumed to be a late form of Ḫepat.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ma, Teshub, Tarḫunz, Šarruma, Allanzu, Kunzišalli, Takitu, Sun goddess of Arinna, Pidray
- teacher of
- Dionysus
- allied with
- Sabazios
- consort of
- Adad
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“The goddess Hipta, known from Lydia and from later Orphic sources, is sometimes presumed to be a late form of her.”
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“Hipta is addressed in the forty-ninth of the Orphic Hymns, a collection of Greek hymns composed in Asia Minor around the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD...she is similarly described as the nurse of Dionysus”
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