Gupan
Canaanite · deity · mythic · deity
Gupan is a vine and Ugar is a field, and between them they carry the storm god's post. The pairing is not decorative: a vineyard and a ploughed field are what a storm god's rain is for, so his two runners are named after the two things that depend on him. They go everywhere together, they are at the very bottom of the Ugaritic divine hierarchy, and one of their errands is to carry Baal's message down to Mot, which is the sort of job a messenger at the bottom of the hierarchy gets.
Domains
- messengers
Relations
Sources
- Reference treatment of Gupan and Ugar, their pairing, their role and their name.