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Nana

Bactrian · deity · primordial · deity

Nana is the head of the Kushan dynastic pantheon and the only deity the Rabatak inscription names as the source of royal power. On the coins she stands or is enthroned on a lion — the dynastic, sovereignty-granting form of the same goddess worshipped across Sogdiana.

Domains

sovereignty
war
victory
royal legitimacy

Relations

equated with: Nana

Sources

Rabatak inscription, ll. 1-3: Kanishka 'who has obtained the kingship from Nana and from all the gods'; ed. Sims-Williams & Cribb (1996)

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