Hannahannah

Hurrian Mother Goddess Hannahannah (from Hittite "hannas" "grandmother"). Hannahannah may have been related to or influenced by the pre-Sumerian Goddess Inanna, although the similarity in name to the Biblical Hannah, mother of Samuel (according to 1 Kings); the Canaanite Anath, and the Christian St Anne are coincidental, the name Hannah in Hebrew having a different etymology deriving from a native root. Hannahannah was also identified with the Hurrian Goddess Hebat.

Christopher Siren reports that Hannahannah is associated with Gulses. After Telepinu disappears, the Storm-god Hittite Tarhunt, Hurrian Teshub complains to her. She sends him to search himself and when he gives up, she dispatches a bee, charging it to purify the god by stinging his hands and feet and wiping his eyes and feet with wax.

She recommends to the Storm-god that he pay the Sea-god the bride-price for the Sea-god's daughter on her wedding to Telipinu.

After Inara consulted with Hannahannah, she gave her a man and land. Soon after, Inara is missing and when Hannahannah is informed thereof by the Storm-god's bee, she apparently begins a search with the help of her Female attendant. Apparently like Demeter, Hannahanna disappears for a while in a fit of anger and while she is gone, cattle and sheep are stifled and mothers, both human and animal take no account of their children. After her anger is banished to the Dark Earth, she returns rejoicing, and mothers care once again for their kin. Another means of banishing her anger was through burning brushwood and allowing the vapor to enter her body. Either in this or another text she appears to consult with the Sun-god and the War-god, but much of the text is missing.

ee also

* Hittite mythology
* Hurrian mythology
* The Telepinu Myth

ources

*Christopher Siren [http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/hittite-ref.html]
* [http://www.pantheon.org Encyclopedia Mythica]