[5] It is possible that rendering the name phonetically, rather than using the Sumerian term balaĝ attested as the equivalent of the word kinnaru elsewhere, was meant to highlight the god's strictly local character.
[9] The proposal that the toponym Kinneret might be an indication that a female deification of the kinnar was worshiped outside Ugarit is not considered plausible due to lack of evidence in textual sources.
[2] In one of the lists of deities, Kinnaru appears near the end, after Yam (the god of the sea) and Uṯḫatu (the deification of a ritual censer).
Franklin also points out that, at Ugarit, "the Rāp’iu text suggests a ‘familiar’ relationship between Kothar and kinnāru/Kinnaru, the former apparently enjoying the more prominent position.
"[17] A connection between the Ugaritic Kinnaru and the mythical king of Cyprus, Cinyras (Kinyras), has been postulated as far back as James Frazer in 1914, and by others before him.
[20] As an extension of this theory, it has been argued that the juxtaposition of Kinnaru and Uṯḫatu (the Divine Censer) in Ugaritic documents might be reflected in Kinyras' association with Myrrha.