Lelwani
Lelwani is a Hattian death god. Originally described as a male deity with the masculine title of katte (king), Lelwani started to be viewed as a goddess instead due to conflation with Allani and Ereshkigal.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 2000 BCE
- Attested period
- -2000 – 0
- Historical notes
- Attested in Hurrian and Hittite mythologies of the mid to late second millennium BCE.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Allani, Ereshkigal, Sun goddess of the Earth
- co occurs with
- Api, Minki, Amunki, Namšara, Ullikummi, Aduntarri, Zulki, Irpitia, Šulinkatte, Weather god of Nerik, Weather god of Zippalanda, Weather god of the Heavens, Tarḫunna/Teššub, Šuwaliyat/Tašmišu, Maliya, Ḫalki, Kasmilos, Kaberoi, Sun goddess of the Earth, Arsay, Nara, Ea, Kammamma, Pirwa, Kataḫzipuri, Ziparwa, Ḫilanzipa, Gulzannikeš, Uliliyantikeš, Išḫara, Hutena, Hutellura
- consort of
- Allatum
- served by
- Anunnaki
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“The Hattian death god Lelwani, originally described as a male deity with the masculine title of katte (king), started to be viewed as a goddess instead due to conflation with Allani and Ereshkigal.”
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“the oldest generation of gods was believed to have been banished by the younger gods to the Underworld, where they were ruled by the goddess Lelwani.”
#14916 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In the Neo-Hittite period, the Hattian underworld goddess, Lelwani was also syncretised with her.”
#16215 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“He is additionally attested in rituals pertaining to the poorly understood ḫešta building alongside Zilipuri; both of them appear as members of a group of deities associated with Lelwani.”
#34546 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Under her Mesopotamian name Allatum Allani came to be linked with Lelwani, originally a male god from the Hattian pantheon, who started to be viewed as a goddess due to this equation, as already attested in sources dated to the reign of Hittite king Ḫattušili III. Piotr Taracha argues that Lelwani's name was effectively reassigned to Allatum, who he assumes was venerated as a separate figure from Allani in Anatolia.”
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