the Etruscan Bernadini tomb at Palestrina and the 'Phoenician Ivory of Shapash' both depict a female sun deity, though the sun cult at Baalbek centred...

this portion of the tale obscure. The sun stops shining as its goddess Shapash joins Ba'al's sister 'Anat in burying him. 'Anat then comes upon Mot, seizing...

which is not known due to the damaged text, but s/he is confronted by Shapash, who tells her/him that El is to bestow royal power on Yam, and so opposition...

of a female deity in what he deems the "cuneiform cultural sphere" is Shapash. At the same time, both the Amorites and the Arameans viewed the solar...

(dies Solis) Genealogy Siblings Luna, Aurora Equivalents Albanian Dielli Canaanite Shapash Etruscan Usil Greek Helios Indo-European Seh₂ul Norse Sól...

alongside her is Ashtart. Interactions between Anat and the sun goddess Shapash and moon god Yarikh are described in myths as well. In Hurrian ritual texts...

earthly fire Ishat, Phoenician fire and drought goddess slain by Anat Shapash, goddess of the sun Arinitti, sun goddess of the city of Arinna, and the...

mythology. An omen text describes him as the doorkeeper of the sun goddess, Shapash, and might identify him with the planet Mars. He was also venerated in...

Ugaritic trilingual list also attests that Šimige and the local solar deity Shapash were considered equivalents of each other. Due to the latter being female...

interpretation dubious. It seems that by the advice of the sun goddess Shapash, Ba‘al mates with a heifer and dresses the resultant calf in his own clothes...

construction of a palace of his own. He is also mentioned in the hymn to Shapash which closes this cycle of myths. In the Epic of Aqhat, he makes the bow...

her, a moon god (e.g., Sin) and a sun deity of varying gender (Shamash/Shapash) to be the only deities shared between various early Semitic peoples of...

linked to the netherworld via the evening star and associated with peace Shapash, also transliterated Shapshu, goddess of the sun; sometimes equated with...

might in some cases refer to Yarikh, grouped with Gaṯaru, the sun goddess Shapash or both of these deities. Thirty individuals bearing theophoric names invoking...

Asherah/Athirat Other wives Children Anat Ashtar Baal Mot Shahar Shalim Shapash Yam (Ugarit religions) Athtart? Hadad? 70 Sons in Total Equivalents Syrian...

1.100, often interpreted as a myth, in which the Ugaritic sun goddess Shapash implores him to help pḥlt, a figure of unknown character troubled by snakes...

is modern and ignores the role of other deities in Ugarit - for example Shapash; as well as the importance of the connection between Athirat and El. The...

Sun (Suriya Pariththa, Suthra Pitaka, Pali canon, Theravada Buddhism) Shapash, goddess of the Sun Ba'al, god of life and fertility, also associated with...

Beit Shemesh, Israel Shamash, solar deity in ancient Semitic religion Shapash (redirect from Shemesh (Canaanite goddess)), was the Canaanite goddess...

modern and ignores the large role of other female deities, for example Shapash, in known texts, as well as the fact El appears to be the deity most closely...

Shams/Shamsum is a female solar deity, possibly related to the Canaanite Shapash and the broader middle-eastern Shamash. She was the dominant goddess of...

Shamash (Utu), Šimige and the local sun goddess Shapash (Šapšu). Apparently to avoid the implications that Shapash had a wife, the scribes interpreted the name...

Bölükbaşı Abode 7th floor of the Sky Symbols Sun, Khatun Gender Female Ethnic group Turkic peoples Consort Ay Ata Equivalents Canaanite Shapash Hindu Surya...

57°27′N 33°59′W / 57.45°N 33.99°W / 57.45; -33.99 (Sapas) 56 1979 Shapash, Ugaritic; sun goddess, "torch of the gods." WGPSN Sati 30°50′N 12°48′W...

and as Sheepy Island. Modern Modocs have called the island Shapasheni (Shapash /xpni), meaning "where the sun and moon live", or "home of the sun and...

planet Jupiter. The sun was worshipped in Canaan as either the goddess Shapash or the god Shamash. Herrmann argues against seeing these separate lineages...

Parents El, Baal (father) Astarte (mother) Siblings paternal: Anat, Attar, Mot, Shahar, Shalim, Shapash, Yam Equivalents Greek Heracles Roman Hercules...

(Wurusemu), Berbers (Tafukt), Egyptians (Hathor, Sekhmet), and Canaanites (Shapash); in the Canary Islands (Chaxiraxi, Magec); in Native America, among the...

Ugaritic Anat Arsay ʼAṯirat ʼAttart Dadmiš Kotharat Nikkal-wa-Ib Pidray Shapash Shatiqatu Tallay Ušḫara Triple Goddess (Neopaganism) Albania : Nëna Shqipëri...

association with other deities, such as the moon god Yarikh and the sun goddess Shapash. The name of the god Gaṯaru (gṯr) is an ordinary Ugaritic adjective meaning...