“... KTU 1.119, a ritual calendar describing cultic activities in a specific month of the year, can serve to illustrate the primacy of the Ugaritic king in ritual. In this text the king must undergo a purifying rite of washing (yrtḥṣ mlk brr), and when he is finished with his cultic obligations he returns to a profane state (√ḥll). Such actions in the biblical sphere are associated with the priesthood (e.g., Lev 16:4, 23–​24) rather than with the cultic actions of kings.8 In KTU 1.119, the offering of sacrifice is the central activity in the ritual and the king is specifically described as sacrificing in the temple of the god ʾIlu (ydbḥ mlk bt ʾil). Another monthly rite known to us from two texts (KTU 1.41, 1.87) also describes the king washing himself and being in a clean/​pure state when engaging in cultic acts and in a pro- fane state when free from his cultic obligations. As for his specific cultic acts, in addition to sacrifice (at one point on a roof), the king also pours libations (√ntk) and makes recitations while in a state of purity (mlk brr rgm yttb).9 Elsewhere we have descriptions of so-​called entry rituals where the king (and other members of the royal family) would take part in processions of divine images (cf. KTU 1.43; 1.112). ...”