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Shahar

Ugaritic Deities

Shahar, whose name means dawn, is a god of Ugaritic and Canaanite religion first attested in inscriptions from the ancient city of Ugarit, now Ras Shamra in Syria. He and his twin brother Shalim, identified by the scholar William F Albright as the god of dusk, were regarded as the twin children of the high god El, marking respectively the beginning and end of the day and so representing the temporal structure of daily life. Both names are grammatically masculine, and the deities themselves appear to have been conceived as male. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Attestation
Era of Attestation
from 1200 BCE 3
Veneration Today
Historically attested; no continuous cult 1
Historicity
Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1
Identity
Gender
Male 2
Belief
Theology
Polytheistic: many gods 1
Function
Domain / Function
Dawn 1
Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
2. Shahar, Structured Record (Wikidata Q)
WikidataWikidata property P21 (sex or gender)View the Source
3. Ugaritic Narrative Poetry
Simon B. Parker (ed.); Mark S. Smith and others (trans.), Society of Biblical Literature, 1997Shahar, Ugaritic corpusView the Source
Wikipedia, "Shahar (god)"
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