Anzili or EnziliPiotr Taracha: ''Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia''. Wiesbaden 2009, p. 56. was a Hittite goddess who was worshiped in Tamita and Zapišḫuna. Her name is sometimes written with the

Sumerogram A Sumerogram is the use of a Sumerian cuneiform character or group of characters as an ideogram or logogram rather than a syllabogram in the graphic representation of a language other than Sumerian, such as Akkadian or Hittite. Sumerograms are no ...

IŠTAR or the compound IŠTAR-''li''. In Ḫurma, the goddess Anzili was considered the partner of the

Weather god of Zippalanda The Weather god of Zippalanda was a Hittite weather god, who was worshipped in the Hittite city of Zippalanda. The weather god of Zippalanda had several names, such as Ziplantil, Wašezzili,Piotr Taracha: ''Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia ...

, but she is also attested as the partner of the Weather god of Šarišša. In Kuliwišna she was worshiped with the local weather god and the LAMMA-tutelary god. Along with the goddess Zukki, Anzili was involved in rituals to aid childbirth. Anzili and Zukki are among the many Hittite deities, whose temporary disappearance is the topic of myth (compare

Telipinu Telipinu was the last king of the Hittites Old Kingdom, living in 16th century BC, reigned c. 1525-1500 BC in middle chronology. At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite Empire had contracted to its core territories, having long since lost all ...

, the Sun goddess of Arinna,

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, the ,

Ḫannaḫanna Ḫannaḫanna (from Hittite ''ḫanna-'' "grandmother") was a Hittite mother goddess. Myths Ḫannaḫanna appears in a number of Hittite myths, and tends to help in solving the problems faced by other gods in them. Most of them are myths deal ...

, the , and various weather gods, including the weather god of Kuliwišna). The standard pattern is that the deity disappears as a result of their anger and they have to be mollified in order to bring them back. In the case of Anzili and Zukki, the goddesses are so angry that they put their shoes on the wrong feet - left on right and right on left - and they put their clothes on back to front, so that their cloak pins are on the back. Then they both departed from mankind. The back-to-front clothes of the goddesses might be understood as a symbol of the symbolic destruction of the cosmic order which results from the goddesses' departure.Volkert Haas, Heidemarie Koch: ''Religionen des alten Orients: Hethiter und Iran''. Göttingen 2011, pp. 270 f.

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Volkert Haas Volkert may refer to: People * Edward Charles Volkert (1871–1935), American painter * Georg Volkert (1945–2020), German footballer * Stephan Volkert (born 1971), German rower * Volkert Doeksen (born 1963), Dutch money manager * Volkert van der ...

: ''Geschichte der hethitischen Religion'' (= '' Handbuch der Orientalistik.'' Band 1.15). Brill, Leiden 1994, . * Volkert Haas,

Heidemarie Koch Heidemarie Koch (17 December 1943 – 28 January 2022) was a German Iranologist. Life and career Koch was born in Merseburg, Saxony, Prussia, Germany. She studied mathematics as her major between 1963 and 1966. Subsequently, she worked as a tea ...

: ''Religionen des alten Orients: Hethiter und Iran''. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, . * Piotr Taracha: ''Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia''. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, {{ISBN, 978-3-447-05885-8. Hittite deities Childhood goddesses