This article is about a legendary queen of Kish. For the Hurro-Hittite goddess, see Kubaba (goddess).
Kubaba
Queen of Kish
Successor
Puzur-Suen
Issue
Puzur-Suen
House
3rd Dynasty of Kish
Kubaba (Sumerian: 𒆬𒀭𒁀𒌑, kug-Dba-u₂) was a legendary Mesopotamian queen who according to the Sumerian King List ruled over Kish for a hundred years before the rise of the dynasty of Akshak. It is typically assumed that she was not a historical figure.[1]
Hittite stag-god Kurunta. Kubaba was also the goddess of Alalakh, located in the coastal Amik Valley. In 2015, a basalt stele of Kubaba, originally from Karkemish...
especially Alalakh, was the area where the Syrian and Anatolian goddess Kubaba was originally worshiped. She is generally seen as a benevolent goddess...
priesthood to become hegemonic ruler of Sumer, and in later ages deified as "Kubaba". Tashlultum (c. 2400 BCE), Akkadian queen, wife of Sargon of Akkad and...
Kubaba, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2010 Jacques Freu et Michel Mazoyer, Les royaumes Néo-Hittites, Les Hittites et leur histoire Tome 5, Collection Kubaba,...
"Chronicle" mentioning Kubaba from A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975) Munn, Mark (2004). "Kybele as Kubaba in a Lydo-Phrygian Context":...
evil-doers. Also reflecting the influence of Kubaba is the association of Kufaws with felines: as it had been for Kubaba, the lion was the sacred animal of the...
associated with her, may have been influenced by the Kubaba cult of the deified Sumerian queen Kubaba. In the 2nd century AD, the geographer Pausanias attests...
Kugbau, a popular taverness from nearby Kish (who was later deified as Kubaba). In the Hebrew Bible, Hebrew: קְדֵשָׁה qědēšā, derived from the root Q-D-Š...
Underworld Ninurta, Assyrian god of war and hunting Tiamat: sea goddess Samnuha Kubaba Marduk (Classical Syriac: ܒܹܝܠ) Enlil Ninlil Nisroch Hanbi: father of Pazuzu...
Acts 16:7–8 Oreshko, Rostyslav (2021). "In Search of the Holy Cube Roots: Kubaba—Kubeleya—Κύβεβος—Kufaws and the Problem of Ethnocultural Contact in Early...
Dynasty of Mari Anbu Anba Bazi Zizi Limer Sharrum-iter Third dynasty of Kish Kubaba Dynasty of Akshak Unzi Undalulu Urur Puzur-Nirah Ushi-Il Shu-Suen of Akshak...
to as the typical Luwian gods, which were always worshipped (the Syrian Kubaba probably also belongs to this group). The Hurrian element, which included...
regarded as originating in such a substratum, including Aštabi, Ishara and Kubaba. The association with a Hebrew word for "fish" (as in Hebrew: דג, Tib. /dɔːg/)...
Canaanite religion: Ba`alat Gebal, Astarte, Anat. Cybele: Her Hittite name was Kubaba, but her name changed to Cybele in Phrygian and Roman culture. Her effect...
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