Gupan

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

• companion: UgarNever appears without him. The two are effectively one office with two names, in the same way Kothar-wa-Hasis is one god with two.Reference treatment noting that Gupan and Ugar always appear as a pair in the known texts. (secondary)
• subordinate to: BaalBaal's messenger, at the bottom of the Ugaritic hierarchy, which is where the messengers always are.Reference treatment of Gupan and Ugar as the messengers of Baal, and of their place at the lowest level of the Ugaritic divine hierarchy. (secondary)

Sources

• Gupan is one of Baal's two messengers in the Ugaritic texts, always paired with Ugar, their binomial name reading 'vine and field'.: Reference treatment of Gupan and Ugar, their pairing, their role and their name. (secondary)