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oapen-20.500.12657-749332023-08-03T17:59:46Z Chapter Kubaba and other Divine Ladies of the Syro-Anatolian Iron Age: Developmental Trajectories, Local Variations, and Interregional Interactions Lovejoy, Nathan Matessi, Alvise Kubaba Iron Age Religious contacts Syro-Anatolian cults bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History Already by the Late Bronze Age, culturally distinct cults of Kubaba existed throughout the region controlled by the Hittite Empire. After the fall of the empire and the fragmentation of the political landscape of the Syro-Anatolian region, these cults persisted in local contexts, developing along their own trajectories, and thus producing hypostases of the goddess with unique roles, modes of expression, and perhaps aliases. However, these local variations did not evolve in a vacuum, but in many cases through a process of interregional and intercultural interactions. This paper will examine these processes along with the resultant expressions of local cults of Kubaba, demonstrating specific trajectories for interactions between neighboring groups, along with selective adaptations and rejections of foreign cultic concepts. Preliminary results suggest an interesting convergence between these cults and certain sociolinguistic boundaries within the region, perhaps connected to communities with shared group identities. 2023-08-03T15:07:25Z 2023-08-03T15:07:25Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230803_9791221501094_129 2612-808X 9791221501094 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74933 eng Studia Asiana application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9791221501094-12.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0109-4_12 Firenze University Press Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria 10.36253/979-12-215-0109-4.12 10.36253/979-12-215-0109-4.12 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria bf678992-c87a-4e07-9a19-8ab62874c1cc 9791221501094 14 18 Florence open access
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Already by the Late Bronze Age, culturally distinct cults of Kubaba existed throughout the region controlled by the Hittite Empire. After the fall of the empire and the fragmentation of the political landscape of the Syro-Anatolian region, these cults persisted in local contexts, developing along their own trajectories, and thus producing hypostases of the goddess with unique roles, modes of expression, and perhaps aliases. However, these local variations did not evolve in a vacuum, but in many cases through a process of interregional and intercultural interactions. This paper will examine these processes along with the resultant expressions of local cults of Kubaba, demonstrating specific trajectories for interactions between neighboring groups, along with selective adaptations and rejections of foreign cultic concepts. Preliminary results suggest an interesting convergence between these cults and certain sociolinguistic boundaries within the region, perhaps connected to communities with shared group identities.
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