Shapshu

Canaanite · deity · mythic · deity

Sun-goddess 'Torch of the Gods' and El's messenger; psychopomp who judges the dead and aids Anat in recovering Baal's corpse.

Parentage

El

Domains

sun
judgment dead

Powers

Travel daily through the land of the dead and back
Lift Baal's dead body onto a mourner's shoulders
Search out the vanished Baal across the cosmos
Behold all that passes on earth by daylight

Epithets

𐎐𐎗𐎚 𐎛𐎍𐎎
nrt ʾilm

Relations

sibling: Anat
sibling: Kirta
sibling: Mot
sibling: Yam
equated with: Utu
equated with: Shams

Sources

Ugaritic Baal Cycle (KTU 1.4–1.6)
Shapshu liturgy, KTU 1.161 (royal funerary rite invoking the Rephaim)

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