Zababa

Zababa is the god of Kish, and Kish mattered: 'king of Kish' was a title that rulers hundreds of miles away claimed for the prestige of it, long after the city itself had stopped being dominant. He is a war god, paired with Inanna as consort — a match of the war god of a great city with the goddess of war, which reads as civic as much as mythological. Later theology pulled him toward Ninurta, as it pulled most of the warrior gods.

Domains

• war

Relations

• consort of: InannaCounted among Inanna's consorts; the pairing of the war god of Kish with the goddess of war is a civic arrangement as much as a mythological one.Reference treatment of Zababa as one of the consorts of Inanna/Ishtar. (secondary)

Sources

• Zababa is the Mesopotamian war god and tutelary deity of Kish, counted among the consorts of Inanna.: Reference treatment of Zababa as god of war and consort of Inanna/Ishtar. (secondary)