[7] The attempts at linking this theonym with El's epithet ‘ab šnm, reinterpreted in this proposal as "father of Šunama," are regarded as unconvincing by Bob Becking.
[11] Based on the similarity of the names of Ṯukamuna and the Kassite deity Shuqamuna, it has been suggested that they were analogous, and that the connection can also be extended to Shumaliya and Šunama.
[7] Bob Becking states that it is not impossible that Ṯukamuna corresponds to Shuqamuna and that the name of the latter deity was ultimately derived from a Semitic language, rather than from Kassite, though the direction of the influence should remain open for debate.
[2] The first text discovered during the initial 1929 excavations in Ras Shamra (Ugarit) describes a ritual taking place over the course of a whole day and the following night which involved offering an ewe and subsequently a ram to Ṯukamuna-wa-Šunama.
[1] They are also mentioned multiple times alongside El, his sons (treated collectively) and his divine assembly in a formula meant to guarantee unity between various inhabitants of Ugarit regardless of their origin, which prescribes the offering of a donkey.
[5] Dennis Pardee proposes that Šunama corresponds to the nameless gatekeeper of El's house,[17] who early on berates Anat and Ashtart for giving various cuts of meat to the moon god Yarikh, who in this text behaves in a dog-like manner.
[4] While already held by them, he is attacked by Habayu, a being described as "lord of two horns and a tail" (b‛l qrnm wḏnb), who smears him with feces and urine and makes the senior god collapse.