Ninatta – Shaushka's attendant. Pihassassa – god of weather and lightning. Papaya – one of the deities who sat under the Hawthorn tree awaiting the return of Telipinu. Pirwa (Pƅrwa - „She-first‟ in plain Macedonian; Skr. Purwa; and/or Plastene) – another name/epithet of the Great Mother Goddess (i.e. Ma and also Zaliyana); comparable to Mesopotamian Ninki/Damkina, a birth mother; the Primordial Mother Goddess. Most probably one of the titularly adjectives of Kubaba/Kibela/Cybele… Sandan/Sandas/Sandakos (i.e. Xanthus/Xandus/Herakles) – the lion god, accompanied by lion and armed with double-axe.44 The burning rite of Sandan was probably followed by a ceremony of his resurrection or awakening.
Simige – sun god, son of the great storm god Tharunt and brother of Telipinu. Siwanţanna – mother of the deity priestess, a title of a reigning queen. Sharruma – god of the mountains, son of Tešub and Hebat (Hurrian); Sharra - a mountain range in Upper Macedonia; “Shuma” - „forest‟ in plain Macedonian. Shauška – goddess of fertility, war and healing (Hurrian); beautiful sister of the god Tešub. Functionally similar to the Mesopotamian goddess Anat-Astarte, sister of Baal. Sutekh – weather god (possibly another name for Tešub); comparable to Egyptian Seth. 44
His eponym is still preserved as Sande, a common Macedonian mail name.
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