Shala
Shala was a goddess who served as the spouse of the weather god in Mesopotamia. She might have been regarded as Teshub's wife among eastern Hurrian communities, which could explain her appearance among Hurrian deities in the treaty between Šuppiluliuma I and Šattiwaza. She is attested in theophoric names from Mari, though all belonged to people from neighboring Babylonia.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Old Babylonian period theophoric names from Mari; possibly regarded as Teshub's wife among eastern Hurrian communities.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ashtart, Bēlet-Apim, Bēlet-Qaṭṭarā, Aya, Ninshubur, Ninmug, Ishum, Kiririsha, Manzat, Inshushinak, Nahhunte, Pinikir, Nannar, Nah, Lulal, Latarak, Ningal, Rammanu, Nanna/Sin, Utu/Shamash, Inanna/Ishtar, Amurru, Lugaledinna, Dumuzi, Allani, Šauška, Nisaba, Ningirima, Geshtinanna, Enmesharra, Apantu, almanu, Sebitti, Tašme-zikru, Shuwala, Kubaba, Aštabi, Shuwaliyat, Baal, Ḫepat, Tarḫunz, Hadda, Shamash, Annunitum, Sin, Humban, Lagamal, Dagan, Shalash, Ninurta, Anu, Inanna, Ištar, Enlil, Išḫara, Nanaya
Mentioned by
- Baal
- Ḫepat
- Tarḫunz
- Hadda
- Shamash
- Annunitum
- Sin
- Humban
- Lagamal
- Dagan
- Shalash
- Ninurta
- Anu
- Inanna
- Ištar
- Enlil
and 3 more
Sources
Source passages
“Further east in Mesopotamia the spouse of the weather god was usually Shala instead...it is not impossible that among eastern Hurrian communities Shala was regarded as Teshub's wife instead.”
#9641 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“This function is also well attested for other spouses of popular deities, such as Ninmug and Shala, the wives of Ishum and Adad”
#15758 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Nahhunte was worshiped mostly in the west of Elam, in the proximity of Susa, similar to deities such as Pinikir, Manzat, Lagamal, Adad and Shala, However, direct references to worship of Nahhunte are rare in known texts.”
#16958 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Adad/Iškur's consort (both in early Sumerian and the much later Assyrian texts) was the grain goddess Shala, who is also sometimes associated with the god Dagānu. She was also called Gubarra in the earliest texts.”
#22928 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Due to the similarity between the names of Dagan's wife Shalash and Shala, wife of Adad in Mesopotamia, some researches conclude that the two goddesses were the same and that Dagan was possibly a weather god himself. However, there is no clear proof that Dagan fulfilled such a function”
#26045 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001