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　ヒッタイト古王国の時代から、アリンナの太陽女神は天候神タルフンナと共に王権を正統化する存在だった。国土は二主神に属するものとされ、太陽女神を「母」とする王が立てられた。<ref>Maciej Popko: ''Arinna. Eine heilige Stadt der Hethiter''; Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten Bd. 50, Wiesbaden 2009. {{ISBN|978-3-447-05867-4}}. p. 28</ref> ハットゥシリ1世は膝の上に太陽女神の像を抱いていた。<ref>[[Volkert Haas]]: ''Geschichte der hethitischen Religion''; Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abt. 1, Bd. 15; Brill 1994. {{ISBN|90-04-09799-6}}. S. 585</ref> Several queens dedicated cultic solar discs to the Sun goddess in the city of Taḫurpa. During the Hittite New Kingdom, the Sun goddess was said to watch over the king and his kingdom, with the king as her priest and the queen as her priestess. The Hittite king worshiped the Sun goddess with daily prayers at sun set. The Hittite texts preserve many prayers to the Sun goddess of Arinna: the oldest is from [[Arnuwanda I]], while the best known is the prayer of Queen Puduḫepa, cited above.

The most important temple of the Sun goddess was in the city of Arinna; there was another on the citadel of [[Ḫattuša]]. The goddess was depicted as a solar disc. In the city of Tarḫurpa, several such discs were venerated, which had been donated by the Hittite queens. King [[Kurunta|Ulmi-Teššup]] of [[Tarḫuntašša]] donated a Sun disc of gold, silver and copper to the goddess each year, along with a bull and three sheep. She was also often depicted as a woman and statuettes of a sitting goddess with a halo may also be depictions of her.<ref>Maciej Popko: ''Arinna. Eine heilige Stadt der Hethiter''; Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten Bd. 50, Wiesbaden 2009. {{ISBN|978-3-447-05867-4}}. pp.&nbsp;30</ref>