Yarikh

Yarikh was a moon god worshipped across the ancient Near East, best documented at the Amorite city of Ugarit in northern Syria, where he held principal deity status. His primary cult center is thought to have been Larugadu, near Ebla, with a mythic center at Abiluma, and his worship extended across Amorite territory to Mari and as far east as Eshnunna in Mesopotamia. Ugaritic ritual and offering texts name him, and he is the protagonist of the myth The Marriage of Nikkal and Yarikh, in which the goddess Nikkal, likely adopted into the Ugaritic pantheon through Hurrian influence, becomes his wife. After Ugarit's Bronze Age collapse his worship persisted in the Levant and Transjordan, though later evidence is sparse; scholars have proposed that the names of Jericho and Beth Yerach preserve his cult, and that biblical polemics against moon worship may allude to him, though this remains uncertain.