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{{Quote|大地の女王にして、我が神、アリンナの太陽女神よ！　ハッティの土地では、あなたは「アリンナの太陽女神」と呼ばれている。そして、レバノン杉が栄えている地ではヘパトと呼ばれています。|author=[[Hittite texts|CTH]] 384<ref>Dietrich Sürenhagen: ''Zwei Gebete Ḫattušilis und der Puduḫepa. Textliche und literaturhistorische Untersuchungen''; [[Altorientalische Forschungen|Aof]] '''8''' (1981), pp. 83–168.</ref>}}

　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。

The land belonged to the two deities and the established the king, who would refer to the Sun goddess as "Mother".<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.<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.