Kamrušepa

Kamrusepa is a Hittite goddess of healing, medicine, and magic. She is a mother of Aruna. She is involved in the Telepinu Myth, about the "missing" vegetation god.

According to Hittite Mythology, she enlisted the help of a human to perform a ritual to remove the anger of an angry god, Telepinu. She used the following ingredients during her ritual: ceder essence, sap, chaff, grain, sesame, figs, olives, grapes, ointment, malt, honey, cream and oil. Upon completion of the ritual she sacrificed 12 rams of the sun gods and directed Telepinu's anger into the Underworld.[1]

See also

References
  1. Wilkinson, Philip (2007). Eyewitness Companions: Mythology. United Kingdom: Penguin. p. 316. ISBN 978-0756642211.

Further reading
  • Archi, Alfonso. "Kamrušepa and the Sheep of the Sun-God." Orientalia, NOVA SERIES, 62, no. 4 (1993): 404-09. www.jstor.org/stable/43078000.


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