Kamrušepa
Kamrušepa is closely associated with sheep. According to Hittite sources, Tiwaz and Kamrušepa were the parents of the tutelary god of Tauriša. The god Hapantali, who worked with Kamrušepa in purification rituals, looked after his sheep in the myth of Telipinu.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 0
- Historical notes
- Attested in Bronze Age texts.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Arma, Ilaliyanteš, weather god with the Luwian epithet puttalimmi, Ziwana, Šanta, Iyarri, Tiwad, Maliya, Nikkal, Sun god of Heaven, *Dyēus, Tarḫunz
- consort of
- Tiwaz
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“According to Hittite sources, Tiwaz and Kamrušepa were the parents of the tutelary god of Tauriša. Like Kamrušepa, Tiwaz is closely associated with sheep.”
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“The goddesses Ḫapantali and Kamrušepa eventually saved him using magic spells.”
#19130 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“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.”
#22754 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“comparable in importance to Tarḫunz, Tiwad, Arma, Maliya, Šanta or Kamrušepa.”
#39609 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“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.”
#46178 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free