Iyarri
Iyarri is a war and plague deity. Šanta could also be associated with Iyarri. It is also possible that in situations where the Sumerogram representing Šanta is accompanied by dZABABA in Hittite texts, Iyarri is meant by the latter.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – -1200
- Historical notes
- Possibly Luwian deity tentatively identified with the Zababa logogram in Bronze Age Anatolia.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ba’altars, Ḫantašepa, weather god with the Luwian epithet puttalimmi, Wurunkatte, Nabbazabba, Sebitti, Marwainzi, Heptad, Tēnu, Tutelary God of Tauriša, Sandas, Zas, Zantas, Sandakos, Iyaya, Ḫandasima, Innarawanteš, Annarumenzi, Tiwad, Maliya, Sun god of Heaven, Ninurta, Nupatik, Aštabi, Ḫešui, Šulinkatte, Erra, Šarruma, Sun goddess of the Earth, Apollo, Šauška, Ḫašulatḫi, Ištar, Teššub, Tarḫunna, Tarḫunz, Kamrušepa, Arma
- aspect of
- Zababa
- syncretized with
- Ares
- has aspect
- Areia
Mentioned by
- Sun god of Heaven
- Ninurta
- Nupatik
- Aštabi
- Ḫešui
- Šulinkatte
- Erra
- Šarruma
- Sun goddess of the Earth
- Apollo
- Šauška
- Ḫašulatḫi
- Ištar
- Teššub
- Tarḫunna
- Tarḫunz
and 6 more
Sources
Source passages
“According to Piotr Taracha, while there was no single Luwian pantheon, attestations of him are known from all areas inhabited by Luwians, similarly as in the case of major deities such as Tarḫunz, Arma, Tiwad, Iyarri, Kamrušepa or Maliya.”
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“in Luwian possibly Iyarri”
#34120 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“During the Hittite Empire, the Dark Gods were associated with the god Iyarri who, like the Greek Apollo, shot his arrows at those he hates. In the Dandanku ritual, meant to prevent the plague in an army by convincing Iyarri to attack enemy countries instead of the Land of Ḫatti, the Heptad were his assistants as the Dark Gods of Iyarri”
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“The worship of Iyarri is best attested from cities from central Anatolia and from areas inhabited by Luwians. Piotr Taracha considers him a god of Luwian origin, though one who was also incorporated into many local Hittite pantheons.”
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