Allanzu is attested in Hurrian religious practice as a named daughter of the major goddess Ḫepat and the storm-god Teshub. Her identity is formed by placement within a divine family-group: she appears in Hurrian kaluti (offering lists) as a member of Ḫepat’s circle and forms a mother–daughter dyad with Ḫepat that could receive offerings together. A diminutive/dual form, Allanzunni, is also attested as lesser hypostases related to her. The cult persisted through cultural transmission into Hittite contexts (she is named among deities moved to Hattusa in royal annals and worshiped with Ḫepat in Ankuwa) and into the first millennium BCE among Luwians where the same divine person appears as Alasuwa in hieroglyphic lists alongside Tarhunza, Ḫepat, and Šarruma.
Textual sources emphasize Allanzu’s youthfulness and refer to her by the Hurrian epithet šiduri, 'young woman (of Ḫepat)'. No detailed iconographic description is preserved in the cited texts. Modern scholarship tentatively identifies two figures depicted adjacent to Ḫepat in the Yazılıkaya sanctuary reliefs (numbers 45 and 46) as Allanzu and Kunzišalli; an inscription related to these reliefs refers to one figure as a daughter of Teshub, an attribution used to support this identification. Beyond these contextual identifications, the surviving evidence does not supply explicit labels or physical feature descriptions for Allanzu.
The available sources do not record independent mythic deeds, specialized functions, or magical powers for Allanzu. Her attested role is primarily cultic and relational: she is a daughter of Ḫepat and Teshub, a member of Ḫepat’s circle who receives offerings (sometimes jointly with Ḫepat), and she appears in ritual lists (kaluti) and in ritual texts concerning Hurrian religious concepts such as šarrena. Continuity into Hittite and Luwian worship indicates a stable cultic presence rather than an expansion into a distinct functional portfolio in surviving records.
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