Sun goddess of Arinna
The Sun goddess of Arinna was a major deity in the Hittite state pantheon with Hattic origins. She had a well-established individual role in the pantheon and maintained her traditional position in treaties and similar documents. Her character was dissimilar to that of Ḫepat, and attempts to syncretize the two goddesses were rare and exceptional.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 1700 BCE
- Attested period
- -1700 – -1200
- Historical notes
- Attested from the Old Hittite period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Pidray, Hipta, Ma, Kammamma, Pirwa, Kataḫzipuri, Ziparwa, Ḫilanzipa, Gulzannikeš, Uliliyantikeš, Sun goddess of the Earth, Tiwaz, Sun god of Heaven, Zintuḫi, Allani, Ayu-Ikalti, Aya, Ea, Shapash, Eyan, Kothar, Šiwini, Tušpuea, Shamash, Teshub, Tarḫunz, Šarruma, Allanzu, Kunzišalli, Takitu, Šimige
- syncretized with
- Ḫepat
- parent of
- Mezulla, Weather god of Nerik, Weather god of Zippalanda, Telipinu
- manifested by
- Eštan
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“O Sun-goddess of Arinna, my lady, queen of all the lands! In Hatti you gave yourself the name Sun-goddess of Arinna”
#9674 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“From the Hittite Old Kingdom, the Sun goddess of Arinna legitimised the authority of the king, in conjunction with the weather god Tarḫunna. The land belonged to the two deities and they established the king, who would refer to the Sun goddess as "Mother".”
#16206 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“He was the second-most worshipped solar deity of the Hittites, after the Sun goddess of Arinna. The Sun god of Heaven was identified with the Hurrian solar deity, Šimige.”
#17338 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In a single case, in an itkalizi ritual, the Sun goddess of Arinna appears in place of Šimige alongside his wife Ayu-Ikalti”
#17371 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5