Epic of Baal

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1The God Mavet is glad.
2Baal will be delivered unto Him, and the fertility of the land will die with Him.
3Baal feasts His last meal, and Mavet commands Him: "I shall put Him in the grave of the Gods of the earth.
4And Thou, take Thy clouds, Thy wind, Thy storm, Thy rains!
5With Thee Thy seven lads, Thine eight swine.
6With Thee, Pidray, girl of Light, With Thee, Tallay, girl of rain.
7Then Thy face shalt Thou set toward the mountain of Kenkeny.
8Lift the mountain on the hands,
9The hill on top of the palms,
10And go down to the nether reaches of the earth
11So that Thou mayest be counted amoung those who do down into the earth,
12And all may know that Thou art dead!"
13Aliyan Baal hearkens.
14He loves a heifer in Deber, A young cow in the fields of Shechelmemet.
15He lies with Her seventy-seven times,
16Yea, eighty-eight times,
17So that She conceives And bears Moses.
18Baal was found dead there in the fields of Shechelmemet, in the land of Deber.
19The news reaches the ears of El, Father of Shunem:
20Thereupon the God of Mercy
21Goes down from the throne,
22Sits on the footstool,
23And from the footstool sits on the earth.
24He pours the ashes of grief on His head,
25The dust of wallowing on His pate.
26For clothing, He is covered with a doubled cloak.
27He roams the mountain in mourning, Yea through the forest in grief.
28He cuts cheek and chin,
29He lacerates His forearms.
30He plows His chest like a garden;
31Like a vale He lacerates His back.
32He lifts His voice And shouts: "Baal is dead!
33Woe to the people of Dagon's son!
34Woe to the multitudes of Athar-Baal!
35I shall go down into the earth."