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Posted: **Tue May 30, 2017 6:55 am**

Excellent. Many thanks, Nathan.

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2017 9:07 pm**

Ben C. Smith wrote:That does make sense, and I agree that "there is no prima facie expectation" that Yahwism would necessarily have to have the same mythos, particularly if this part is sound:

This involves describing the departing of Ba'al and the response of the other gods in ways deliberately modeled on the Ugarit liturgy for mourning the death of the (human) king.
The background to this appears to be a parallel drawn between the disappearance and return of Ba'al and the replacement of the human king by his successor (the king is dead long live the king).
Hence the representation, in the Ba'al Mot cycle, of the disappearance of Ba'al as his death appears related to the specific function of the myth in Ugarit culture.
Where is this liturgy to be found?

See royal funerary text

Andrew Criddle

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2017 5:41 am**

andrewcriddle wrote:
Ben C. Smith wrote:Where is this liturgy to be found?

See royal funerary text

Thank you. That is the same text, it appears, as what Nathan gave (albeit using a different system in its label). Given the comments by Pardee and the comments by Smith, I take it no one is really sure whether the myth influenced the royal ritual or the royal ritual influenced the myth.

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