Runtiya

Luwian tutelary hunting god (CERVUS); written with deer/antler logogram.

Parentage

• father: Tiwaz
• mother: Kamrusepa

Domains

• the hunt
• wild nature protection

Powers

• Stand upon a stag while drawing bow and arrow
• Shield game, herds and the open countryside

Epithets

• the Stag-god latin · Runtiya · cultTutelary god of the open country and the hunt, who stands upon a stagHieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions and reliefs (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hutter, Aspects of Luwian Religion (in Melchert ed., The Luwians, 2003) (secondary)