Hittite and Hurrian nursery and midwifery goddesses only exist in collective.
The Tarawa are the collective of
Hittite midwifery goddesses. They helped to create the first king of gods.
The Hutellurra are the
Hurrian
The Hurrians (; cuneiform: ; transliteration: ''Ḫu-ur-ri''; also called Hari, Khurrites, Hourri, Churri, Hurri or Hurriter) were a people of the Bronze Age Near East. They spoke a Hurrian language and lived in Anatolia, Syria and Northern ...
collective of midwifery goddesses, mentioned in the "Song of
Ullikummi __NOTOC__
In Hurrian mythology, Ullikummi is a giant stone monster, son of Kumarbi and the sea god's daughter, Sertapsuruhi, or a female cliff. The language of the literary myth in its existing redaction is Hittite, in cuneiform texts recovered a ...
". The Irsirra are the
Hurrian
The Hurrians (; cuneiform: ; transliteration: ''Ḫu-ur-ri''; also called Hari, Khurrites, Hourri, Churri, Hurri or Hurriter) were a people of the Bronze Age Near East. They spoke a Hurrian language and lived in Anatolia, Syria and Northern ...
collective of nursery goddesses. In the Ullikummi song they put little Ullikummi secretly on the shoulder of
Ubelluri
Upelluri or Ubelluri was a primordial giant in Hurrian mythology.
He is only known from the ''Song of Ullikummi'', which is one of the few Hurrian texts offering a view of this culture's cosmology. It was believed that Upelluri was already alive ...
, the giant who carries the world.
Literature
* Volkert Haas: ''Die hethitische Literatur'', Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2006, pages 144, 172, 162, 165, {{ISBN, 978-3-11-018877-6
Hittite deities
Childhood goddesses