Hittite mythology, a huwasi (meaning "standing stone") is a ritual standing stone to a deity usually situated in a temple. Huwasi are sometimes identified...

Sacred stone may refer to: Baetyl, sacred stones in ancient Asian and European religions Benben, in ancient Egyptian religion Huwasi stone in Hittite...

images of deities, for the Hittites often worshipped their gods through Huwasi stones, which represented deities and were treated as sacred objects. Gods...

Amorite site Mari where the term sikkanum designated a stone used in cultic ceremony, the huwasi stones installed into the temples and open-air sanctuaries...

where humans will make offerings (perhaps an etiology of so-called ḫuwaši stones, treated as cult objects in Syria and Anatolia) and a gap, various deities...