The Goddess Hannahannas

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HannaHannas, Grandmother.
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[to Whom the twenty-third day of May, day 143, is dedicated]

Geography/Culture: Hittite: Gulsas; perhaps originally Hattite.
Linguistic Note: perhaps the origin of the Semitic feminine name Hannah, see Anne.
Description: Goddess Queen of the highest heaven; She Who ensures the restoration of fertility, growth, happiness and celebration when it is needed; Oldest of all; Mother of the Gods; Mother of all the people; Ruler of Deities and all people; She Who possesses wisdom beyond wisdom; Life bringer; She Who gives comfort, reassurance and aid to those who call upon Her; She Who can cleanse fury from the soul.
Lovely divine maidens (bearing sesame and nectar) aided Her restoration of Telipinu, and are part of Her entourage.
To Whom Sacred: sesame; nectar; bee (Her messenger); eagle.
Male Associates: Telipinu, god of fertility, whom She woke from his sleep by sending a bee to find, and sting, him awake. Kamrusepas, the magician who aids Her in recovering Telipinu's sanity.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Variant: Hanna-Hanna.
Perhaps the etymological origin of Anne.
Variant: Hannahanna.
The name is ideologically (I really do not understand what is meant by this word as used in my sources but see below ideological) written Mah, Mother. {this will be cross referenced either to Aruru, or to Bellona - I haven't decided quite where is best for Mah}.
Her name is also ideologically written Nin.Tu, Lady-Life-Giver, linked with Dam-Kina.

Source: Monaghan BGH 127; Stone AMWv1 195-8; Pritchard ANEv1 88.

worked on: August 6, 1991; May 1995.

ideological adj. 1. of or relating to ideology. 2. Of or concerned with ideas.
ideology n. The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an idindividual, group, class, or culture.

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