She was also worshiped in other Hurrian centers, such as Nuzi and Alalakh, as well as in Ur in Mesopotamia, Hattusa in the Hittite Empire and in the Syrian cities Emar and Ugarit.
It is also assumed that she was an underworld goddess, and she frequently appears alongside other deities of such character, Allani and dU.GUR, possibly a logographic spelling of the name of Nergal.
[5] Identification of Shuwala with Shala, wife of the Mesopotamian weather god Ishkur (Adad), proposed by Edward Lipiński based on the similarity of the names, is regarded as unsubstantiated.
[3] Hurro-Hittite ritual texts from Hattusa indicate that Shuwala was regarded as one of the goddesses belonging to the circle of Hebat, which consisted of Hurrian and Syrian deities.
[10] Worship of pairs of goddesses (for example Išḫara and Allani, Hutena and Hutellura, Ninatta and Kulitta) as dyads was a common feature of Hurrian religion.
[1] Shuwala was the tutelary goddess of Mardaman (modern Bassetki),[1] a city in northern Mesopotamia assumed to be culturally Hurrian based on personal names of its inhabitants (for example Nakdam-atal and Nerish-atal).
[19] Shuwala, directly labeled as "of Mardman," is present in the description of a Hurro-Hittite festival of Shaushka of Tameninga (a city assumed to be located in the upper Euphrates area) found in Hattusa.
[24] The precise meaning of the term kissu remains uncertain, making the nature of these celebrations, and roles of specific deities in them, difficult to ascertain.
"[13] Edward Lipiński regards the connection as proven, but relies on the assumption that Shuwala is one and the same as Allani,[29] which is erroneous, as they appear together as two distinct deities in texts from Ur[1] and Hattusa.