AYA

Aya or AYA can refer to:

Main uses

Aya (angel) - a Turkish angel or goddess of creativity.

Aya (goddess) - an Akkadian goddess

Aya Group - business conglomerate in Uganda

Aya, Miyazaki - town in Japan

Cape Aya, a rocky promontory on the Ukraine coast of the Black Sea

AYA (band) - Slovak rock band

People

Aya (given name), female Japanese given name

Aya Matsuura (born 1986), Japanese singer
Aya (Japanese singer), female Japanese rock artist
Aya, guitarist of Japanese group Psycho le Cému

Aya Matsuura (born 1986), Japanese singer

Aya (Japanese singer), female Japanese rock artist

Aya, guitarist of Japanese group Psycho le Cému

Lysa Aya Trenier, English singer and actress who performs under the stage name "Aya"

Aya Liu (born 1978), Taiwanese singer and hostess

Aya Korem (born 1980), Israeli singer and songwriter

Surname

Ramzi Aya (born 1990) Italian footballer

Fiction

Aya of Yop City, graphic novel series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie

Aya, a character in the AK Comics series

Aya, the protagonist in the novel Extras

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Aya (comics)

Aya, in comics, may refer to:

Aya of Yopougon, a graphic novel series by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie

Aya, a character in the AK Comics series

Aya (DC Comics), a fictional character featured in comic books published by DC Comics.

Aya (goddess)

Aya (or Aja) in Akkadian mythology was a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash. She developed from the Sumerian goddess Šherida, consort of Utu.

History

Šherida is one of the oldest Mesopotamian gods, attested in inscriptions from pre-Sargonic times, her name (as "Aya") was a popular personal name during the Ur III period (21st-20th century BCE), making her among the oldest Semitic deities known in the region. As the Sumerian pantheon formalized, Utu became the primary sun god, and Šherida was syncretized into a subordinate role as an aspect of the sun alongside other less powerful solar deities (c.f. Ninurta) and took on the role of Utu's consort.

When the Semitic Akkadians moved into Mesopotamia, their pantheon became syncretized to the Sumerian. Inanna to Ishtar, Nanna to Sin, Utu to Shamash, etc. The minor Mesopotamian sun goddess Aya became syncretized into Šherida during this process. The goddess Aya in this aspect appears to have had wide currency among Semitic peoples, as she is mentioned in god-lists in Ugarit and shows up in personal names in the Bible (Gen 36:24, Sam 3:7, 1 Chr 7:28).

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