“... Môt, having returned to life, recounts his suffering at the time of his killing. The first version (KTU 1.6 ii:30–36) reads as follows: tiẖd bn ilm mt bḥrb tbqʿnn, bẖtr tdrynn, bišt tšrpnn, brḥm tṭḥnn, bšd tdrʿnn, širh ltikl ʿṣrm ‘she seized Môt, son of Il, cleaved him with a sword, winnowed him with a sieve, burned him in fire, ground him with a millstone, scattered him in a field, his flesh the birds ate.” [...] The common images and identical verbs in the description of the destruction of Mot and that of destroying the golden calf are: takl, eat; lqḥ = ʾẖd, take; šrp, burn; ṭḥn, grind; and drʿ, scatter (in the sea), in one version, and being eaten by birds on the other. The Exodus version might have preserved the image of “being eaten” while the Deuteronomic version may have preserved the image of “being scattered in the sea.” It seems that both accounts, the Ugaritic about Môt and the biblical about the golden calf, are not to be taken literally, for their purpose is to describe total destruction without regard for the factual applicability of the actions involved (burning and grinding). ...”