Shapshu information

Shapshu _or Shamshu
Shapshu or Shamshu
Goddess of the Sun, Messenger of El
Planet	Sun
Gender	female
Parents	El (father)?

Shapshu (Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎔𐎌 špš, "sun") or Shapsh, and also Shamshu, was a Canaanite sun goddess. She also served as the royal messenger of the high god El,^[1]^: 323 her probable father.^[a] Her most common epithets in the Ugaritic corpus are nrt ỉlm špš ("Shapshu, lamp of the gods", also translated as "torch" or "luminary" of the gods by various authors), rbt špš ("great lady Shapshu"), and špš ʿlm ("eternal Shapshu").^[2] In the pantheon lists KTU 1.118 and 1.148, Shapshu is equated with the Akkadian ^dšamaš.^[3]^{: 361–362}

^ Frayne, D. R. & Stuckey, J. H. (2021). A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam. US: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1575068374.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Rahmouni A., J. N. Ford trans. (2007). Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts. Brill. ISBN 978-9004157699.
^ Wyatt, Nicolas (2002). Religious Texts from Ugarit: 2nd Edition. Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 0826460488.

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[Frayne,_D._R.,_and_Stuckey,_J._H.-1] Frayne, D. R. & Stuckey, J. H. (2021). A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam. US: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1575068374.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Rahmouni,_A.-3] Rahmouni A., J. N. Ford trans. (2007). Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts. Brill. ISBN 978-9004157699.

[Wyatt,_Nicolas-4] Wyatt, Nicolas (2002). Religious Texts from Ugarit: 2nd Edition. Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 0826460488.

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