Qλdãns is the most frequently attested male deity in the surviving Lydian inscriptions, second in overall frequency only to the goddess Artimus, beside whom he is regularly named. His true nature is debated: earlier scholars read the theonym as Pldãns and equated him with Apollo or a moon-god, while more recent work (Sasseville and Euler; Yakubovich) reinterprets the sign values and etymology to reconstruct him as a martial Storm-god of the army. Across these readings he remains the leading masculine power of the native Lydian pantheon.