Kamrusepa, Hittite–Luwian Anatolia, mosaic art nouveau portrait

Hittite–Luwian Anatolia

Kamrusepa

Mistress of Healing and Purification

Hittite and Luwian Anatolia — c. 17th–13th centuries BCE

✦

Her story

Historical context

goddess · Hittite and Luwian Anatolia — c. 17th–13th centuries BCE

Kamrusepa is a Hittite-Luwian goddess of healing, magic and purification known from Bronze Age ritual and mythological texts. In the myth of the vanished Telepinu, her carefully ordered rites help remove anger and restore fertility to the land.

Mythology & traditions

Her power is procedural rather than spectacular: harm is transferred, untangled and released through exact acts of restoration.

Domains

  • healing
  • purification
  • ritual knowledge
  • restoration

Symbols

  • spindle
  • wool
  • herbs
  • honey

In the oracle

Her guidance

Maiden

What you need to sow

Begin with one precise act that clears the obstruction.

Mother

What you need to grow

Grow healing through patient, repeatable care.

Crone

What you need to know

Know that restoration needs method as well as intention.

Her tradition

Anatolian Tradition

Hittite female powers of careful restoration and grandmother counsel known through Bronze Age myth and ritual texts.

Explore these figures
Draw a readingReturn to all goddesses