== 祭祀 ==
The most important temple of the Sun goddess was in the city of Arinna; there was another on the citadel of [[Ḫattuša]]. The 太陽女神の最も重要な神殿はアリンナにあった。ハットゥシャの城にも別の神殿が存在した。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. 30</ref>
The deer was sacred to the Sun goddess and Queen Puduḫepa promised to give her many deer in her prayers. Cultic vessels in the shape of a deer presumably were used for worship of the Sun goddess. It is also believed that the golden deer statuettes from the Early Bronze Age, which were found in the middle of the [[Kızılırmak River]] and belong to the Hattian cultural period, ere associated with the cult of the Sun goddess.