Šanta
Šanta (Santa) was a god worshiped in Bronze Age Anatolia by Luwians and Hittites. It is presumed that he was regarded as a warlike deity, and that he could additionally be associated with plagues and possibly with the underworld. He is first attested in documents from Kanesh dated to the Old Assyrian period, and continues to appear in later treaties, ritual texts and theophoric names.
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When
- First attested
- 2000 BCE
- Attested period
- -2000 – 200
- Historical notes
- Worshiped from the Bronze Age through Greco-Roman times.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ḫantašepa, weather god with the Luwian epithet puttalimmi, Sandauarri, Sandasarme, Iyarri, Marwainzi, Zappana, Ziwana, Ba’altars, Zas, Zantas, Sandakos, Iyaya, Ḫandasima, Innarawanteš, Annarumenzi, Tiwad, Maliya, Marwinzi, Sandas, Zantos, Sun god of Heaven, Hadad, Šarruma, Erra, Apollo, Ares, Areia, Skanda, Tarḫunz, Kamrušepa, Arma, Kubaba, Karhuha
- allied with
- Iyarri, Sun goddess of the Earth, Marivda
- syncretized with
- Heracles, Nergal of Tarsus, Marduk
- parent of
- Sandakos
- manifested by
- Hãta
Mentioned by
- Sun god of Heaven
- Hadad
- Šarruma
- Erra
- Apollo
- Ares
- Areia
- Skanda
- Tarḫunz
- Kamrušepa
- Arma
- Kubaba
- Karhuha
- Sun goddess of the Earth
- Marivda
- Nergal of Tarsus
and 2 more
Sources
Source passages
“It has been proposed that the supposed theonym Santi, preserved in the London Medical Papyrus in a section written in an unknown language referred to as "Keftiu", is a form of the name Šanta.”
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“comparable in importance to Tarḫunz, Tiwad, Arma, Maliya, Šanta or Kamrušepa. It is possible that eventually Iyarri was eventually superseded by Šanta, as the latter appears much more commonly in sources from the first millennium BCE.”
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