Shalim

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Shalim is a deity from ancient Canaanite religion, commonly associated with dusk or the setting sun.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Shalim canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Canaanite deity
deity
associatedWith evening
attestedIn Ras Shamra tablets
Ugaritic texts
category Canaanite gods
Ugaritic deities
conceptuallyRelatedTo completion of the day
cosmicFunction marking the end of daylight
cosmologicalPosition western horizon
culture ancient Canaanite
domain dusk
setting sun
gender male
hasAspect liminal time deity
solar cycle deity
hasCounterpart Shahar
linguisticRoot Š-L-M
mentionedIn Ugaritic mythological texts
mythologicalCycle Ugaritic texts
surface form: Ugaritic mythological corpus
nameLanguage Northwest Semitic
Ugaritic
nameMeaning completion
dusk
pairedDeityFunction complements Shahar as dawn and dusk pair
pairedWith Shahar
pantheon Canaanite religion
surface form: Canaanite pantheon
parent Asherah
El
relatedConcept peace
wholeness
religion Canaanite religion
role astral deity
solar deity
sibling Shahar
symbol evening star
setting sun
temporalAssociation end of the day
timeOfDay sunset
twin Shahar
typeOf West Semitic god
worshipRegion Levant region
surface form: Levant

Canaan
surface form: ancient Canaan

Greater Syria
surface form: ancient Syria

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

El parentOf Shalim
El (in some traditions) offspring Shalim
subject surface form: El