Atar

deity sky Indo-European single tradition · 3

Atar is a fire deity in Indo-European mythology who is endowed with male sex and male potency, similar to Agni.

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When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2020
Historical notes
Ancient Indo-European fire deity.

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“In Indo-European mythologies, there is a special fire deity who is endowed with male sex and even male potency, such as Agni or Atar.”

#17483 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Given that fire is considered highly sacred in both Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (as Agni and Atar respectively), and the two faiths share similar elements (such as Yajna and Yasna) from a common proto-Indo-Iranian precursor religion, there has been debate on whether the Atashgah was originally a Hindu site or a Zoroastrian one.”

#23173 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“whose iterations included the Greek Hestia, and the Vedic Agni among the Indo-Aryans, and Atar among the more southern Iranian peoples”

#34653 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5