are giving a dog food. The rest of the composition focuses on El getting drunk and subsequently struggling with the effects of alcohol, and Yarikh is not referenced again. However, the final lines apparently relay how to prepare a remedy for hangover using dog hair, which might be a reference to his role. It is not certain why Yarikh acts in a dog-like manner in this text. His behavior might simply be tied to the theme of alcohol consumption. While Yarikh himself makes no appearance in KTU2 1.12, a minor goddess appearing in this text, Talish (tlš) is described as his handmaiden (‘amt). The origin of her name is not known, though it has been proposed it was derived from a root meaning "tardy" or "delay," or from the verb "to knead." Alternatively, it might be related to the ordinary name Tu-li-ša attested both in Ugarit and in Nuzi. Talish occurs in parallel with Dimgay, another minor goddess, the handmaiden of Athirat, which is sometimes used to argue in favor of them being a single deity with a binomial name, Dimgay-wa-Talish (dmg w tlš). In the surviving passage, both of them suffer from labor pain. Since a well known Mesopotamian composition casts Sin in the role of a god helping in such situations, Yarikh's absence from the surviving sections of the text, coupled with Talish being explicitly associated with him, is considered difficult to explain by researchers. The myth KTU 1.92 mentions Yarikh in passing as one of the gods who receive game from Ashtart after her return from a hunt. In Emar In Emar, the name of the moon god was represented by the logogram d30. It is not certain if he can be identified as Yarikh. According to Brian B. Schmidt the moon god worshiped in Emar was Sin. However, it is not impossible that more than one deity of such character was present in the local pantheon, and Gary Beckman lists the West Semitic reading as one of the four possibilities, next to Mesopotamian, Hurrian and Anatolian (Arma). It has also been proven that in at least some cases the logogram refers to Saggar, already worshiped in the proximity of Emar, in Ma-NEki, in the third millennium BCE. Other writings of his name are also attested, including multiple syllabic and a second logographic one, dḪAR. Priests of the deity designated by d30 are attested in documents from