Английская Википедия:Aya (goddess)

Aya was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with dawn. Multiple variant names were attributed to her in god lists. She was regarded as the wife of Shamash, the sun god. She was worshiped alongside her husband in Sippar. Multiple royal inscriptions pertaining to this city mention her. She was also associated with the Nadītu community inhabiting it. She is less well attested in the other cult center of Shamash, Larsa, though she was venerated there as well. Additional attestations are available from Uruk, Mari and Assur. Aya was also incorporated into Hurrian religion, and in this context she appears as the wife of Shamash's counterpart Šimige.

Names

Aya's name was written in cuneiform as ^da-a (Шаблон:Cuneiform).Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn It is sometimes romanized as Aia instead.Шаблон:Sfn It has Akkadian originШаблон:Sfn and means "dawn".Шаблон:Sfn Sporadically it could be prefixed with the sign NIN,Шаблон:Sfn with the variant form Nin-Aya attested in a dedicatory inscription of Manishtushu Шаблон:Sfn and in an offering list from Mari.Шаблон:Sfn NIN was a grammatically neutral title well attested as a part of theonyms, and in this context can be translated as queen or mistress.Шаблон:Sfn It has been suggested that in Ayaʼs case, it was used as a sumerogram representing the term “Lady”. Шаблон:Sfn In Hurrian sources Aya was known as "Ayu-Ikalti".Шаблон:Sfn This form of the name was derived from the phrase Aya kallatu,Шаблон:Sfn "Aya the bride".Шаблон:Sfn

Multiple additional names of Aya are attested in god lists.Шаблон:Sfn

Sherida

Sherida (Шаблон:Lang; ^dŠÈ.NIR-da, also ^dŠÈ.NIR, Šerida or ŠerdaШаблон:Sfn) could function as a Sumerian equivalent of Aya's primary name.Шаблон:Sfn It has been suggested that it was a loanword derived from Akkadian šērtum, "morning".Шаблон:Sfn However, this proposal is not universally accepted.Шаблон:Sfn

The name Sherida is already attested in the god list from Fara and Abu Salabikh.Шаблон:Sfn Additionally, the theophoric name Ur-Sherida is known from Lagash Шаблон:Sfn and Ur.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Ill notes that if the assumption that it was an Akkadian loanword is accepted, she would be one of the earliest deities bearing names of Akkadian origin to be integrated into the pantheons of Sumerian-speaking areas.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Efn The name Sherida appears for the last time in cultic context in sources from Sippar and Larsa from the Old Babylonian period.Шаблон:Sfn

Sudaĝ and related names

Sudaĝ (^dsud-áĝ or ^dsù-da-áĝШаблон:Sfn), "golden yellow shine" or "golden yellow shining rock/metal",Шаблон:Sfn is attested as a name of Aya in multiple god lists, including An = Anum (tablet III, line 131) and its Old Babylonian forerunner.Шаблон:Sfn A further name present in the same source, Sudgan (tablet III, line 130), might have a similar meaning ("light", "glow").Шаблон:Sfn Ninsudaĝ (^dnin-BU-áĝ, interpreted as ^dnin-sud4-áĝ), attested in the Early Dynastic god list from Fara and possibly in the Old Babylonian god list from Mari, might be a further variant of the name, though the reading is ultimately uncertain in this case.Шаблон:Sfn

Due to similarity of the names Sudaĝ and Sud, the tutelary goddess of Shuruppak equated with Ninlil, the latter appears in the role Ishum's mother in a single myth.Шаблон:Sfn However, according to Шаблон:Ill Sud and Sudaĝ were only confused with each other rather than conflated or syncretised.Шаблон:Sfn

Ninkar

Ninkar or Ninkara (from kár, "to light up") was one of the names of Aya according to An = Anum (tablet III, line 126).Шаблон:Sfn However, this theonym initially referred to a separate deity,Шаблон:Sfn presumably considered to be the goddess of daylight.Шаблон:Sfn In the oldest available sources her name was written as ^dnin-kar, while ^dnin-kár(-ra) first attested in the Ur III period is presumed to be a later variant.Шаблон:Sfn One of the Early Dynastic zame hymns from Abu Salabikh is dedicated to her.Шаблон:Sfn It is also known that a temple dedicated to her existed in Lagash.Шаблон:Sfn She is additionally attested in the theophoric name Ur-Ninkar, one of whose bearers might have been a deified king of Umma.Шаблон:Sfn

Manfred Krebernik assumes that in texts from Ebla, the name Ninkar also refers to the spouse of a sun deity, who he assumed was seen as male in this city.Шаблон:Sfn Alfonso Archi instead concludes that the Eblaite sun deity was primarily female based on available lexical evidence.Шаблон:Sfn Joan Goodnick Westenholz proposed that Ninkar in Eblaite texts should be interpreted as Ninkarrak rather than the phonetically similar but less well attested Mesopotamian Ninkar.Шаблон:Sfn She points out occasional shortening of Ninkarrak's name to "Ninkar" is known from Mesopotamian sources.Шаблон:Sfn The identification of Eblaite Ninkar with Ninkarrak is also accepted by Archi.Шаблон:Sfn

Other names

Further names of Aya attested in An = Anum include Nin-mul-guna ("lady colorful star"; tablet III, line 132)Шаблон:Sfn and Nin-ul-šutag (Шаблон:Cuneiform; "lady delighted with charm"; tablet III, line 134, the end of the Aya section).Шаблон:Sfn Paul-Alain Beaulieu additionally proposes that Belet Larsa ("Lady of Larsa") known from a number of Neo-Babylonian letters might be identical with Aya.Шаблон:Sfn

Character and iconography

Aya was considered the personification of dawn.Шаблон:Sfn She was associated with morning light and the rising sun.Шаблон:Sfn She was called the "morning-maker"Шаблон:Sfn Her other primary function was that of a divine bride, as exemplified by her epithet kallatum ("bride", "daughter-in-law"), and in this capacity she was regarded as epitome of beauty and charm.Шаблон:Sfn She was also commonly invoked to intercede with her husband Shamash on behalf of worshipers.Шаблон:Sfn This function is also well attested for other spouses of popular deities, such as Ninmug and Shala, the wives of Ishum and Adad, as well as for Inanna's sukkal Ninshubur.Шаблон:Sfn

The astronomical compendium MUL.APIN states that Aya was associated with the constellation Ewe,Шаблон:Sfn typically represented by the sumerogram ^mulU₈, though a source referring to it with the phonetic Akkadian translation, ^mulImmertu, is known too.Шаблон:Sfn It might have corresponded to the northeastern section of the constellation Boötes.Шаблон:Sfn However, ultimately its identification remains uncertain.Шаблон:Sfn

In Mesopotamian art Aya was commonly depicted frontally.Шаблон:Sfn Many depictions highlighted her beauty and sexual charm.Шаблон:Sfn On seals from Sippar she was often depicted wearing a type of garment which exposed her right breast, meant to emphasize her qualities as a charming and attractive bride.Шаблон:Sfn Ishtar and Annunitum (who in Sippar functioned as a separate goddess, rather than an epithet) were depicted similarly.Шаблон:Sfn The existence of an emblem representing Aya is mentioned in texts from Sippar, but no descriptions of it are known.Шаблон:Sfn

Associations with other deities

As the wife of Shamash, Aya was regarded as the daughter-in-law of his parents Suen and Ningal and sister-in-law of his sister Ishtar.Шаблон:Sfn Their daughters were Mamu (or Mamud), the goddess of dreamsШаблон:Sfn and Kittum, the personification of truth.Шаблон:Sfn According to Joan Goodnick Westenholz another deity considered to be their child was Ishum.Шаблон:Sfn

In Hurrian sources Aya was also viewed as the spouse of a sun god, Šimige.Шаблон:Sfn A trilingual Sumero-Hurro-Ugaritic edition of the Weidner god list from Ugarit attests the equivalence between Shamash (Utu), Šimige and the local sun goddess Shapash (Šapšu).Шаблон:Sfn Apparently to avoid the implications that Shapash had a wife, the scribes interpreted the name of Aya, present in the Mesopotamian original, as an unconventional writing of Ea, with his Hurrian name Eyan corresponding to it in the Hurrian column and local craftsman god Kothar-wa-Khasis in the Ugaritic one.Шаблон:Sfn

A single god list dated to the Middle Babylonian period or later equates Lahar with Aya and explains that the former should be understood as "Aya as the goddess of caring for things" (^da-a šá ku-né-e), though Wilfred G. Lambert noted this equation is unusual, as Lahar was consistently regarded as male otherwise, and the evidence for connections between both goddesses and mortal women with herding sheep, a sphere of life he was associated with, is limited.Шаблон:Sfn

Worship

Aya was already worshiped in the Early Dynastic period.Шаблон:Sfn While she is overall less well attested in textual record than major goddesses such as Ishtar, Nanaya, Ninlil or Ninisina, it is nonetheless assumed that she was a popular target of personal devotion,Шаблон:Sfn as she appears commonly in personal names and on seals, especially in the Old Babylonian period.Шаблон:Sfn In personal letters she is attested with frequency lesser only than Ishtar.Шаблон:Sfn

Sippar

Aya was worshiped in Sippar in the temple of Shamash, known under the ceremonial name Шаблон:Ill.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Efn They are the divine couple most often invoked together in seal inscriptions from this city, followed by Adad and Shala and Enki and Damkina.Шаблон:Sfn In legal texts, Aya often appears as a divine witness alongside her husband, their daughter Mamu and Shamash's sukkal Bunene.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Efn

In the Sargonic period, Manishtushu dedicated a mace head to Aya in this city.Шаблон:Sfn Hammurabi of Babylon referred to himself as the "beloved of Aya" in an inscriptionШаблон:Sfn commemorating the construction of new walls of Sippar in the twenty fifth year of his reign.Шаблон:Sfn He also mentioned Aya in an inscription commemorating the construction of a canal named after her, Aya-ḫegal, "Aya is abundance".Шаблон:Sfn Samsu-iluna called himself the "beloved of Shamash and Aya" and both renovated the Ebabbar and built walls around Sippar.Шаблон:Sfn It has also been noted that the Naditu community from this city were particularly closely associated with Aya, as evidenced by the fact that they addressed her as their mistress, commonly took theophoric names invoking her, and exclusively swore oaths by her.Шаблон:Sfn They were a class of women closely associated with Shamash.Шаблон:Sfn Their existence is particularly well attested in the Old Babylonian period,Шаблон:Sfn and it has been argued that the institution first developed around 1880 BCE, during the reign of Sumu-la-El of Babylon.Шаблон:Sfn Naditu lived in a building referred to as gagûm, conventionally translated as "cloister,"Шаблон:Sfn and Tonia Sharlach notes they can be compared to medieval Christian nuns.Шаблон:Sfn They are sometimes described as "priestesses" in modern literature, but while it is well attested that they were considered to be dedicated to a specific deity, there is little evidence for their involvement in religious activities other than personal prayer, and it is not impossible they were understood as a fully separate social class.Шаблон:Sfn

Other Babylonian cities

It has been argued that in contrast with her position in Sippar, Aya was less prominent in the other city associated with Shamash, Larsa, where she does not appear in official lists of offerings.Шаблон:Sfn It is assumed that his temple in this city, which also bore the name Ebabbar, was nonetheless also dedicated to her.Шаблон:Sfn Some references to her are also present in texts from the Neo-Babylonian period, with one text mentioning the priests from Larsa sent jewelry of Aya and of the "divine daughter of Ebabbar" to Uruk for repairs.Шаблон:Sfn References to a "treasury of Shamash and Aya" are known too.Шаблон:Sfn

While Aya was not worshiped in Neo-Babylonian Uruk, she appears in ritual texts from this city from the Seleucid period.Шаблон:Sfn Julia Krul suggests that her introduction into the local pantheon reflected a broader phenomenon of incorporating spouses, children and servants of deities already worshiped locally (in this case Shamash) into it.Шаблон:Sfn She was celebrated during the New Year festival.Шаблон:Sfn In this context she appears alongside Shamash and Bunene.Шаблон:Sfn

A house of worship dedicated to Aya, the Edimgalanna ("house, great bond of heaven"), is mentioned in the Canonical Temple List, but its location is unknown.Шаблон:Sfn

Outside Babylonia

Aya was worshiped in Mari in the Old Babylonian period.Шаблон:Sfn She appears in theophoric names of women from this city with comparable frequency to Shamash and Dagan, the head god of the region, though less commonly than Annu, Ishtar, Ishara, Kakka (regarded as a goddess in this city), Mamma and Admu.Шаблон:Sfn Examples include Aya-lamassi, Aya-ummi and Yatara-Aya.Шаблон:Sfn

A sanctuary dedicated to Aya, Eidubba ("house of storage bins") existed in Assur in Assyria.Шаблон:Sfn

Hurrian reception

Aya was among Mesopotamian deities incorporated into Hurrian religion.Шаблон:Sfn She is attested in the Шаблон:Ill (offering lists) focused on Ḫepat and her circle.Шаблон:Sfn She is one of the Hurrian deities depicted in the Yazılıkaya sanctuary, where a relief of her can be seen in a procession of goddesses, between Nikkal and a figure who might represent Šauška.Шаблон:Sfn She is also attested in the itkalzi rituals.Шаблон:Sfn

Mythology

Buduhudug, a mythical mountain where the sun was believed to set, was regarded as "the entrance of Shamash to Aya" (nēreb ^dŠamaš <ana> ^dAya) - the place where they were able to reunite each day after Shamash finished his journey through the sky.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn

In the "Standard Babylonian" version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ninsun during her prayer to Shamash asks Aya three times to intercede on behalf of her son Gilgamesh to guarantee his safety both during the day and the night.Шаблон:Sfn Ninsun states that the optimal time for Aya to appeal to her husband is right after sunset, when he returns home from his daily journey.Шаблон:Sfn

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