“... II. Biblical geographical tradition agrees with the mythological and cultic data of the Ugaritic texts. According to KTU 1.108:1-3. the abode of the mlk 11m, the dead and deified king (DEL OutO LETE 1987:49-53), and his place of enthronement as rpll was in cJtrt-lzdry, in amazing correspondence with the Biblical tradition about the seat of king Og of Bashan, "one of the survivors of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtarot and Edrei" (Josh 12:4 [NEB». This place Ism is also treated in KTU 1.100:41; 1.1 07: 17: and RS 86:2'235: 17 as the abode of the god mlk, the eponym of the mJkm, the deified kings, synonym of the rpllm. For the 'Canaanites' of Ugarit, the Bashan region, or a part of it, clearly represented 'HeU', the celestial and infernal abode of their deified dead kings, -Olympus and -Hades at the same time. It is possible that this localization of the Canaanite Hell is linked to the ancient tradi- tion of the place as the ancestral home of their dynasty, the rpllm. The Biblical text also recalls that "all Bashan used to be called the land/earth of the Rephaim" (Deut 3:13 [NEB]), an ambiguous wording that could equally be translated as "the 'hell' of the Rephaim". In any case, the link between Bnshan and the rpllInlRephaim in both tradi- tions speaks in favour of a very old usc of the two meanings of this last denomination: ancient dwellers of Northern Transjordan I inhabitants of 'Hell'. ...”