text: The use of the name of the god ʿAttar as a theophoric element is attested in the name  (, ), which is attested on an 8th-century BC stamp seal and was also the name of the earliest known ruler of Laqē, as well as  (, ), which was the name of two rulers of the kingdom of Bēt-Gūš. The name of this god always appears in the masculine form even in women's names, such as ʿAttar-ramat and ʿAttar-ṭabat, thus attesting that the Aramaean ʿAttar was a distinctly masculine deity.
  One of the hypostases of the Aramaean ʿAttar was  (), that is the ʿAttar of the Heavens: in this role, ʿAttar was the incarnation of the sky's procreative power in the form of the moisture provided by rain, which made fertile his consort, the goddess of the Earth which has been dried up by the summer heat. Due to ʿAttar's role as a provider of rain, his epithet "of the Heavens" refers to his manifestation as lightning and thunder in the skies.
  The name of the goddess who was the consort of ʿAttar is itself not attested in Aramaic, but is recorded in Sabaic as  () or  (), which was derived from the South Semitic root  (), itself a declension of the Semitic root , meaning "to be dry." The position of Hūbis/Huwbis as the consort of ʿAttar-Šamayin is attested by the depiction of a goddess in front of a standing worshipper on an 8th-century Aramaean cylinder seal, with the image of a vulva, the symbol of Hūbis/Huwbis, being present behind the goddess and over a recumbent gazelle - the sacred animal of ʿAttar - over which was also inscribed the name of the god himself.