Shalim
Shalim ('Dusk') is one of the children of El, born after El lay with two women on the shores of the sea. The Ugaritic text Shachar and Shalim tells of this event.
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When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 1920
- Historical notes
- Appears in Ugaritic texts.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Raḥmayyu, Anat, Shapash, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Yarikh, Hauron, Tunnanu, Horon, Attapar, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Hadad, Baal, Asherah, Yam, Athirat, ʾil-ʾib, Mot, Dagnu, Ba'l Ṣapān, El, Resheph, Dagan, Ashtart, ʿAṯtar
- sibling of
- Shachar
- allied with
- Shahar
- child of
- ʼĒl
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“The Ugaritic text Shachar and Shalim tells how (perhaps near the beginning of all things) El came to the shores of the sea and saw two women who bobbed up and down. He then lay with them, and they gave birth to Shachar ('Dawn') and Shalim ('Dusk').”
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“The deities invoked are Baal, Dagan, Anat (paired with Ashtart), Yarikh, Resheph, Ashtart (on her own), Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Kothar-wa-Khasis and the pair Shahar and Shalim, all of them invoked from their cult centers, some of them located close to Ugarit (Mount Saphon), other on Crete, in Anatolia (Bibitta) or Upper Mesopotamia (Tuttul, Mari).”
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