Dagon and Ilib both belong to the older stratum of Canaanite religion. In Ugaritic ritual texts, both receive offerings as venerable ancestral figures predating the active mythology of Baal's generation.
Ilib, the deified ancestral spirit, dwells in Mot's underworld realm. The Rephaim (royal dead) receive offerings through rituals that acknowledge Mot's dominion over the shades of the departed.
The Rephaim texts describe the ancestral spirits journeying to a great feast, possibly at Mount Zaphon. Ilib, the deified ancestor, received offerings in rituals that connected the mountain's divine court with the honored dead.
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