wait THIS is the legendary bad Kura paper too lol

nuska isn't even attested in the ED period if i'm not mistaken

this is low but i will probably make the lead deliberately clickbaity and inflammatory because engagement on the recent articles has been anemic and none got any followup questions 😔

it's even funnier when you take into account how she acts towards anat or in the snakebite texts. it's as if she specifically hates attar's guts

this was meant to be a 1,5k words Mise clout farming article at first, it's 6k words now

other than a single unusual theophoric name with alternate explanations than the existence of a female solar deity, mesopotamia offers no real evidence; "regular" amorite, aramaic and phoenician solar deities are all clearly masculine

Horon is an exception though - rare in Ugarit, virtually absent from middle Euphrates (a single possible personal name from Mari aside), but presumably popular in the transjordan

the number 3 makes some people descent into utter incomprehensibility. this needs to be studied

pretty striking that even Ugarit monographs published -this decade- often have incredibly spotty bibliographies; it really is down to the bible studies influence isn't it.