Pirwa is a horse deity of the Hittites and Luwians in ancient Anatolia (today's Turkey). He's also called Perwa or Peruwa. Considered a warrior or warlike god, he's associated with the cities of Hattusa and Kanesh, and worshipped at other sites too.
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Text mentions and a couple of images attest to him as a horse warrior. Hittites are strong warriors and horse people. They develop chariot warfare and scale armor for horses as well as humans.
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During the mid-1300s BCE the Hittite Empire encompasses much of Asia Minor, northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. The Hittites take advantage of the speed and efficiency of the horse to travel long distances and populate other lands.
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According to University of Berlin emeritus Ahmet Ünal, a Hittite horse handbook of the times, translated from the Hurrian, covers various details such as:
... feeding horses with a combination of fodders, watering, galloping, trotting, grooming, harnessing, unyoking, sweating, washing, massaging ears (GEŠTUḪI.A - ŠUNU kiššerit para ḫuittiya-), anointing with sheep fat (IŠTU Ì.UDU iškiya-), combing (kušala-), covering by means of blankets to keep warm (IŠTU TÚGḪI.A waš-), muzzling (puriyalli dai-), cleaning, smoothing, covering the eyes and bathing at the river.
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In depictions horse god Pirwa may be represented as a male deity standing on a horse, a common motif. Hurrian weather god Teshub is sometimes standing on a bull, the bulls Seri and Hurri who draw his chariot, or on mountain gods.
Marduk also stands on his snake-dragon helper mushussu (mušḫuššu) in some images. Canaanite Goddess Astarte, seen as the equivalent of Inanna, is pictured below standing on an armored horse.
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Horse God Pirwa is the possible husband of Ḫaššušara, a name translated in Hittite as "king [who is a] queen". Pirwa and Ḫaššušara are sometimes described together as a divine dyad.
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In offering lists or kaluti, Pirwa appears in a group of Kanesh deities including Hashamili (Ḫašamili) the smith god, Kamrušepa goddess of medicine and magic, and Maliya, a deified river and goddess of gardens. His worship is locally widespread, as his popularity peaks in the years before the greatest range of the Hittite Empire (1300s BCE).
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Temples to Pirwa are recorded at Šippa and Wijanawanta. He's associated with mountains, having sanctuaries at mountaintops. Beside the horse his symbols are those typical of a strong ruler, the lion and eagle.