Arma
Arma is the moon god who appears in Iron Age reliefs alongside Tiwaz, the Luwian Sun god.
↻ synthesized from 10 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 0
- Historical notes
- Appears in Iron Age reliefs.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Armazi, Itrushana, Zaden, Santush, Tetri Giorgi, Teššub, Yarikh, Kab, Andriamahilala, Avatea, Fati, Mahina, Marama, Kidili, Ngalindi, Kašku, weather god with the Luwian epithet puttalimmi, Ziwana, Šanta, Iyarri, Tiwad, Maliya, Kamrušepa, Hapantali, Ahura Mazda, Sin, Anāhitā, Mah, Kumarbi, Kušuḫ, Hina, Bahloo, Sun god of Heaven, Tarḫunz
- allied with
- Tiwaz
- consort of
- Nikkal
- enemy of
- Ušḫuni
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“There are two reliefs from the Iron Age, which show Tiwaz with the moon god Arma. He is marked out by a winged sun above his head. The image from Arslantepe closely resembles the depiction of the Sun god from the Hittite sanctuary at Yazılıkaya.”
#17511 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Arma (Luwian religion), a God.”
#18444 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Hittite arma- 'moon' and Indo-European rites of passage.”
#19136 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the Hittite moon god Armaz (Arma)... Giorgi Melikishvili proposed the identification of Armazi as a local variant of Arma, the god of the moon in Hittite mythology”
#19142 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Especially in Kizzuwatna, the character of the Luwian moon god Arma were heavily influenced by Kušuḫ's. He also came to be portrayed identically to his Hurrian counterpart, in a pointed cap with a crescent symbol and with wings on his shoulders.”
#19287 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001