apa-ama-words-as-female-names-in-mediterranean-area

 

 A gold ornament with a Scythian goddess Apa from the Kul Oba kurhan

A gold ornament with a Scythian goddess Apa from the Kul Oba .

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There are two Apamas (Ἀπάμα) in the time of the Alexander the Great 

1. Daughter of Spiramenes

2. Daughter or Artabazus

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There are Mesopotamian goddesses with the names:

1. Ama-arḫuš: can be translated from Sumerian as "compassionate mother"

2. Amasagnudi: can be translated as "the "indestructible mother"

3. Amashilama: was the daughter of Ninazu and his wife Ningirida, and one of the two sisters of Ningishzida

4. Mami or Mama: is a mother goddess whose name means "mother"

5. Ningirama: was a goddess^[470] associated with incantations, water, and fish,^[470] and who was invoked for protection against snakes

6. Uṣur-amāssu: was one of the deities regarded as children of Adad and Shala.^[445] While initially viewed as male, she came to be regarded as a goddess and achieved a degree of prominence in Neo-Babylonian Uruk, where she belonged to the entourage of Ishtar.

7. Lamashtu: as a goddess with the "head of a lion, the teeth of a donkey, naked breasts, a hairy body, hands stained (with blood?), long fingers and fingernails, and the feet of Anzû.

8. Ninamakalla: a little known goddess

9. Nisaba: was originally a goddess of grain and agriculture,^[123] but, starting in the Early Dynastic Period, she developed into a goddess of writing, accounting, and scribal knowledge

10. Gazbaba: was a goddess closely associated with Nanaya, like her connected with erotic love.

See: Sumerian 𒂼 (ama, “mother”) as the root.

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Source: wikipedia

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Apaturia (Ancient Greek: Ἀπατουρία): was an epithet given to more than one goddess in Greek mythology. The name meant "the deceitful".

Aba (Ancient Greek: Ἄβα): was a Thracian naiad nymph from the town of Ergisce in Ciconia.

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Vedic Apah/Apas: the female deity Apah is the presiding deity of the Purva Ashadha asterism; water is deified in the Atharvaveda with prime importance. Her godship is celebrated in seven entire hymns,^[1] and in many other scattered references. There, she is called the mother of the whole universe,^[2] and thereby, she is expected to serve her offspring like a mother.

(Ok it is not from the mediterranean area but it could have got in touch with Türkic).

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And now see te Türkic deities:

Aba-Khatun: A sea goddess of the Buryats of Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal, eastern Siberia.

Ama Hanım: Creator Goddess in Turkish and Altai mythologies

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Türkic has an etymology for both words. There are still the words like ebe, eme, ama, apa in use in Türkic areas of this world, meaning all mother. 

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I think, the Türkic root APA/ABA could be the root of the name of all female deities above!

(Bu adları bir yere toplamamın nedeni, bir ara işe yarayacak olmasıdır!)

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Uzunbacak Adem