Shapshu
Canaanite solar deity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[lower-alpha 1] 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