entities: ENT_LYD_KUVAVA

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_LYD_KUVAVA Kuvava (Kybebe)   Lydian deity deity mother goddess, sovereignty, mountains   devotional   B candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 The Lydian mother-goddess, attested in Lydian inscriptions as Kuvava and in Greek as Kybebe (Herodotus 5.102; Hipponax names her at Sardis). Descended from the Luwian/Neo-Hittite Kubaba of Carchemish and ancestral to the Phrygian/Greek Cybele; central to Munn's account of Anatolian divine sovereignty. Distinct local form, not the Phrygian Matar. deity

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