wāšḫullati-
‘Sun-god(dess) of the earth (?)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 539
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
wāšḫullati-
‘Sun-god(dess) of the earth (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in festival texts for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat. sg. | waa-a-aš-ḫu-ul-la-ti-i(=) | KBo 19.152 iv! 10’ | (CTH 751, MS) |
| waa-aš-ḫu-la-ti-i(=) | KBo 19.153 iii 6’ | (CTH 751, NS) | |
| w[aa-(a)-aš-ḫu-(ul)-la-ti-i(=) ] | KUB 35.166 + KBo 19.154, 9’ | (CTH 751, MS?) |
The sequence waa-a-aš-ḫu-ul-la-ti-ia-aš could be taken as a unitary word or as waa-a-aš-ḫu-ul-la-ti-i=a-aš with the enclitic pronoun in the nominative singular common gender. The latter option is supported by the occurrence of [Dwaa-aš-]ḫu-ul-la-ti-iš in a new fragment (DBH 46/2.121, 11´), designating the Palaic Sun-god(dess), which attests to a formation wāšḫullati- (cf. also Dwaa-aš-ḫu-la-aš(-)x[ in DBH 46/2.139 r.col. 5’ and pa-aš-ḫu-la-t[i-iš] in Bo 6431, 1´; after an old handcopy, Hethitologie-Archiv Mainz). For the translation of the passage, see under Meaning.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
Based on our analysis of the context, we expect the sentence in which the lexeme occurs to refer to something bad that has not happened to the sacrificial animal, i.e. ‘It (scil. ram/bull) has no disease, it has no impurity, waa-aš-ḫu-la-ti-ia-aš ni-i wa-ḫa-ri-ia-an-za, the blood (lit. river) has not flowed, the blade has not fallen.’; see Sasseville 2019a:24 and cf. Carruba 1970a:78, Carruba 1972a:44, Watkins 1978a:309. The word wāšḫullati- is surely related to pašḫullašaš, the epithet of the Sun-god (Carruba 1970a:78) and based on [Dwaa-aš-]ḫu-ul-la-ti-iš (DBH 46/2.121 11’), it represents the deity itself. If waa-a-aš-ḫu-ul-la-ti-ia-aš is correctly interpreted as waa-a-aš-ḫu-ul-la-ti-i=a-aš, the sentence could be understood as follows: "To the Sun-god(dess) of the earth (i.e. Between here and the Sun-god(dess)), it has not gone to and fro.".
This interpretation would imply that the ram or the bull has not served as a scapegoat, whence it does not carry any impurity and can be best served as a meal for the gods. An analogical Hittite passage involving a ram and the Sun-god(dess) of the earth can be adduced to support this intepretation, i.e. KBo 17.61 rev. 18´-21´ (Steitler 2017a:235f.). This analysis brings further evidence for the semantic assignment of Pal. pašḫulla- as ´earth, underworld (?)´.
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For the derivational base, see pašḫulla-.