#deus cervus

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please my dudes, my gods, my kings...i'm drawing a line in the sand on the amount of syncretism i can mentally and emotionally handle

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Reshep (Ršp, Rašap, Reshef) is a Syrian deity of the underworld with hunting and warlike aspects. Originally from Ebla, Reshep’s worship spread throughout ancient Canaan and to Egypt, Anatolia, and Cyprus. In texts from Ugarit, Reshep often receives the epithet gatekeeper of Shapash, as he would open the way to the underworld every night to allow the sun goddess to pass through. As lord of arrows, Reshep was thought to bring both plague and healing (and would later be worshiped in the form of Apollo-Amyklos-Reshep-Mikal). He may have also been a god of fire and lightning. He was associated with both deer and hunting, and was thus syncretized with ANE “divine deer” gods like the Luwian Runtiya and Hittite Kurunta. In his role as a deity of death and the underworld, he was associated with Nergal. In Egypt Reshep enjoyed a period of popularity as a foreign god of war and occasionally formed a triad with Min and the Syrian Qudshu; he could also be a son of Herishef and a form of Montu.

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me presenting Deus Cervus with my newest thesis on His syncretic forms: