Estan
Hattic · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Hattic solar deity ('sun, day'); the original of the great Sun goddess of Arinna (Wurunsemu/Arinniti); her name was borrowed for the male Hittite sun-god Ištanu.
Children
Domains
- sun
- kingship and the land
Powers
- Rule as sun and mother over the land and its king
Relations
- interpretatio: HebatPuduhepa: 'Sun-goddess of Arinna, my lady... in the land of the cedar you bear the name Hebat.' An explicit ancient equation of the Estan-derived Arinna goddess with Hebat; Hebat is no solar deity.Prayer of Puduhepa, CTH 384 (KUB 21.27 i 3-6) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Taracha, Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia (2009) (secondary)