Tiwaz (Luwian deity)

The name of the Proto-Anatolian Sun god can be reconstructed as *Diuod-, which derives from the Proto-Indo-European word *dei- ("shine", "glow").

In Hieroglyphic Luwian of the Iron Age, the name can be written as Tiwad- or with the ideogram (DEUS) SOL ("God-Sun").

[3] The hieroglyphic Luwian name Azatiwada [de] ("Beloved of Tiwaz") is the root of the Pamphylian town of Aspendos.

A Lycian women's name, Tewidarma (Τευδιαρμα; "Sun-Moon") and a Lydian patronym, Tiwdalis, are derived from Tiwaz.

Tiwaz was the reflex of the male sky god of the Indo-European religion, Dyeus, who was superseded among the Hittites by the Hattian Sun goddess of Arinna.

In the Hittite and Hurrian religions the Sun goddess of the Earth played an important role in the death cult and was understood to be the ruler of the world of the dead.

Libation offering to the Sun-god Tiwaz (right, with winged sun ) and the Moon-god Arma (left, with crescent moon) in a relief from Arslantepe.