Editing Resheph (section)

====Divination====
In an [[omen]] text, RS 12.061, Resheph is addressed as the doorkeeper of the sun goddess [[Shapash]].{{sfn|Pardee|2002|pp=131-132}}{{sfn|Krebernik|2013|p=200}} According to Dennis Pardee, it can be assumed that he functioned as an [[underworld]] deity, and that he was responsible for opening the gates of the underworld to let her undertake the nightly portion of her journey.{{sfn|Pardee|2002|p=133}} However, the text is likely an allusion to an [[astronomical]] phenomenon as well.{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=148}} While attempts have been made to identify it as a report of a [[solar eclipse]], according to Pardee it describes a period of five days during which the planet [[Mars]], corresponding to Resheph, has been observed at sundown, before its [[heliacal setting]] made that impossible on the sixth day.{{sfn|Pardee|2002|p=131}} Maciej M. Münnich notes that based on Mesopotamian evidence it is possible that Mars was regarded as an ill omen in Ugarit.{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=148}}

RS 24.247+, an Ugaritic omen compendium which deals with teratomancy (telling the future based on observation of malformed animal [[fetus]]es) in a manner similar to [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] ''[[Šumma Izbu]]'',{{sfn|Pardee|2002|p=135}} states that an animal born with short legs foretells a situation in which “Resheph will consume the progeny”.{{sfn|Pardee|2002|p=140}}