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Possible depiction of a Sun goddess with a child; 15–13th BCE. The Sun goddess of Arinna, also sometimes identified as Arinniti or as Wuru(n)šemu, [1] is the chief Goddess of Hittite mythology. Her companion is the weather god Tarḫunna. She protected the Hittite kingdom and was called the "Queen of all lands."
Arinna was located near Hattusa, the Hittite capital. [2] The Sun-Goddess of Arinna is the most important one of three important solar deities of the Hittite pantheon, besides d UTU nepisas 'the sun of the sky' and d UTU taknas 'the sun of the earth'. She was considered to be the chief deity in some sources, in place of her husband.
Though drawing on ancient Mesopotamian religion, the religion of the Hittites and Luwians retains noticeable elements of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European mythology.For example, Tarhunt, the god of thunder and his conflict with the serpent Illuyanka resembles the conflict between Indra and the cosmic serpent Vritra in Vedic mythology, or Thor and the serpent Jörmungandr in Norse mythology.
Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the Celts.
Gulšes and Ḫannaḫanna (Hittite), [77] [78] Kotharāt (Ugaritic), [37] Šassūrātu (Mesopotamian) [79] Hutena and Hutellura were goddesses of fate [75] and divine midwives. [80] It is possible they were similarly believed to be responsible for forming the child during pregnancy. [81]
Their children are the gods Telipinu and Kammamma, [11] the goddesses Mezulla [12] and Inara, [11] the Weather god of Zippalanda and the Weather god of Nerik. [ 13 ] As a result of his identification with the Hurrian god Teššup , Tarḫunna is also the partner of Ḫepat (who is syncretised with the Sun goddess of Arinna) and the father of ...
Aruna (Hittite mythology) Aškašepa; Aštabi; D. Dark Gods (Anatolian) E. ... Sun god of Heaven; Sun goddess of Arinna; Sun goddess of the Earth; Šuwaliyat; T ...
Possible depiction of the Hittite Sun goddess holding a child in her arms from between 1400 and 1200 BC. *Seh₂ul is reconstructed based on the Greek god Helios, the Greek mythological figure Helen of Troy, [4] [5] the Roman god Sol, the Celtic goddess Sulis / Sul/Suil, the North Germanic goddess Sól, the Continental Germanic goddess *Sowilō, the Hittite goddess "UTU-liya", [6] the ...