A third group of deities consists of gods mentioned in the Bible, but not in their capacity as gods. They are the so-called demythologized deities. Examples abound. One of the Hebrew words for moon used in the Bible is yārēaḥ; this is the etymological equivalent of Yarikh, the moon-god known from the Ugaritic texts. Although the moon may have retained faint traces of divinity in the Bible, it has basically been divested of its divine status. The same holds true of the sun (šemeš): the Hebrew