Ilimilku the Scribe · a new plain-English translation from the original language
from the heights of Sapan — who would flush him like a bird from
his lordship(?), drive him from the throne of his kingship,
from the resting place, from the seat of his dominion.
What enemy has risen against Baal — what foe against the Rider of the Clouds?'
The lads answered; they gave answer: 'No enemy has risen
against Baal, no foe against the Rider of the Clouds!
Message of Mightiest Baal, word of the Mightiest
of Warriors: Set in the earth war no more;
place in the dust love; pour peace
into the heart of the earth, calm into the heart of the fields.
Your haste, your speed, your rush! To me let your feet
[ru]n, to me let your legs hasten.
[For] [a word] I have, and I will tell it — a matter,
[and I will repeat it to you:] [a wo]rd of tree and a whisper of
[stone] — a wo[rd] [people] [do not kn]ow, [and] the earth's [multi]tudes
do not [understand;] the conv[erse] [of the heavens] [with the ea]rth,
of the deeps wi[th] [the stars.] [I understand] [lightning]
the he[avens] do not kn[ow.] [Come,] and I
will rev[eal it,] [in] [the mi]dst of my [mou]ntain, divine Sapan,
in the ho[ly place,] on the mount of my [he]ritage.'
And the Virg[in] [A]nat an[sw]ered — the Si[ster-in-law] of Peoples replied:
'I myself will set
[in] [the ear]th war no more; I will place in the dust
love; I will pour pe[ace] into the heart of the earth,
ca[lm] into the hea[rt] [of the fi]elds. Let Baal set
his thunderbolts(?) in [the heavens;] let [the Rider] [of the Cl]ouds kindle
his horns(?) of lightning. I will set
in the earth war no more;
I will place in the dust love; I will pour
peace into the heart of the earth, calm
into the heart of the fi[el]ds. And a second word
I will say: Go, go, attendants of the gods!
You two may linger, but I am off.
Ughar is a distance for the gods — Inbub
is far for the divinities: two lengths
beneath the springs of the earth, three spans of the caverns.'
Then indeed she set her face toward Baal
on the heights of Sapan — across a thousand fields, ten thousand acres.
The coming of his sister Baal saw — the approach
of his father's kinswoman. He sent the women from his presence.
He set an ox before her, a fatling right before
her face. She drew water and washed —
dew of heaven, oil of earth; the dew of the heav[ens] [pou]red on her,
the showers the stars poured out for her;
she beautified herself with murex whose issue comes from a thousand fields
in the s[ea . . .]
'A house [for] [Baal] [like the gods'] — [a court]
like the sons of A[thirat's!] [The dwelling] [of El] — [the shelter]
of his sons; the dwel[ling] [of Lady] [Athirat] [of the Sea] —
the dwelling of Pidr[ay,] [Daughter of Light;] [the shelter]
of Tallay, Daughter of Rain; [the dwelling] [of Arsay,]
Daughter of the Wide World; [the dwelling] [of the] honored [brides!]'
And the [Virgin] [Anat] answered:
'Bull El [my father] will heed me —
he will heed me, or against him [I will turn(?)!]'