Mesopotamia, in a more recent study Lluís Feliu arrived to the opposite conclusions. The association between them was limited to sharing temples in southern Mesopotamia, and most likely was rooted only in their shared western origin and the resulting "foreign" status in the eyes of Mesopotamian theologians, as indicated by the fact it is not attested outside Babylonia. Sources from ancient sites in modern Syria, where both deities were more commonly worshiped and held a higher position in the pantheon, do not indicate a strong connection between them. Feliu additionally points out that Lambert relying on this assumption also wrongly concluded Ishara was one and the same as Haburitum, a goddess who represented the river Khabur who is also attested in association with Dagan in Mesopotamia. He notes that Haburitum and Ishara at times appear in the same documents, and cannot be the same deity. This view is also supported by Alfonso Archi. He considers it more likely that Haburitum was analogous to Belet Nagar. Like Feliu, he assumes it is not plausible that Ishara was ever regarded as Dagan's wife, at least partially because of her Ishtar-like characteristics. Myths Ishara appears in a myth known from an original Hurrian version and a Hittite translation, known as the Epic of Freeing or Song of Release, discovered in Hattusa in 1983, with further fragments recovered in 1985. She is introduced alongside Allani, with both of them being referred to as "young woman" (Hurrian: šiduri). Ishara is also addressed as "wordmaker, famous for her wisdom." Later, in a very fragmentary passage, she seemingly negotiates the fate of the city with an envoy of Teshub, who wishes to destroy it because the Eblaites refuse to free the inhabitants of the city Igingallish. The text is most likely an etiological explanation of the historical destruction of Ebla. Ishara also appears in the proemium of the Song of Kumarbi, part of a Hurrian cycle of myths about the eponymous god, as one of the deities invited to listen to narrator's tale.Epic of Gilgamesh and Atrahasis'' both mention Ishara in passing as a goddess of marriage. References Bibliography Eblaite deities Hittite deities Hurrian deities Inanna Love and lust goddesses Mesopotamian goddesses Plague gods Ugaritic deities Underworld goddesses