== 王権の概念 ==
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> King [[Ḫattušili I]] would hold the Sun goddess in his lap.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.
== Cult ==