The rabbis of the Talmud gave no reason for the prohibition,[3][4] but later authorities, such as Maimonides, opined that the law was connected to a prohibition of Idolatry in Judaism.[5] Obadiah Sforno and Solomon Luntschitz, rabbinic commentators living in the late Middle Ages, both suggested that the law referred to a specific foreign [Canaanite] religious practice, in which young goats were cooked in their own mothers' milk, aiming to obtain supernatural assistance to increase the yield of their flocks.[6][7] More recently, a theogonous text named the birth of the gracious gods, found during the rediscovery of Ugarit, has been interpreted as saying that a Levantine ritual to ensure agricultural fertility involved the cooking of a young goat in its mother's milk, followed by the mixture being sprinkled upon the fields,[8][9] though still more recent sources argue that this translation is incorrect.[10][11]