Okay, but Rucka!Cheetah is stupid, so I see no virtue in twisting better canon in order to preserve her.
Urzkartaga's punishment of Minerva for 'infidelity' is not actually anything that requires normal sentience or deliberation on his part. It is, in fact, one of the things that makes him seem most distant and least like an actual character - it's very, very ritual. She wasn't a virgin so the ceremony didn't take. Chuma, who personalizes his deity, calls it jealousy; Minerva calls it side effects, and Minerva's take is far more accurate. It's an impersonal, ongoing, unchanging pain that slowly overtook her and can be alleviated with the proper treatment. True jealousy is immediate, changing, incidental. Europa turns into a cow and is left alone. Herc is attacked by snakes; he defeats them, that trial is over, and the next time out, he's struck by madness. That's what people do when they're jealous - they make single attacks that fluctuate in frequency and intensity with their mood. The consistency of Barbara's 'punishment' is that of a disease, not a guiding sentience.