1 Arnhem (nl) 2017 – 1 Anatolia in the bronze age. Appendix 2024 © Joost Blasweiler - joostblasweiler@planet.nl The Kalehisar mountain and the deities of Arinna, the city of the Sun Goddess. May 2012 the Kalehisar mountain in the neighborhood of Alaca Höyük, ca 10 km to the north (all pictures made by author), In Central Anatolia about 40 km from Hattusa a sacral mountain is located near the archeological site of Alaca Höyük. At the last site, the remains of probably Arinna the city of the Sun goddess has been excavated 1 . From Hittite texts, it is known that the divinized mountain Hulla was located near Arinna and that the mountain deity was a peculiar deity of Arinna’s pantheon. 2 Therefore the Karishar mountain (about 10 km north from Alaca Höyük) seems to be Hulla, the sacral mountain. In Hittite texts, the mountain has written as D Hu-ul-la-a. In Arinna the goddess had an own temple; the deity has still mentioned in important treaties of the New Kingdom period such as the treaty with Alakšandu, the king of Wilusa. 1 To the arguments that Alaca Höyük was Arinna, see: Piotr Taracha 2011, The Iconographic Program of the Sculptures of Alacahöyük, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 11: 132-147 and Alfonso Archi 2015, Hittite Religious landscapes, Sacred Landscapes of Hittite and Luwian Landscapes Studia Asiana 9, 22. Özlem Sir Gavaz 2012, Involving the whereabouts of the Tarhrupa city, Kaskal volume 9, 31-44. Maciej Popko has proposed that the holy city Zippalanda was located at Alaca Höyük (1994:29) . 2 Maciej Popko 2009, Arinna Eine heilige Stadt der Hethiter, 32-33. Volkert Haas GHR 1994: 586: Hulla was a mountain goddess.