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Tablet IV (KTU 1.4) — Column I

Ilimilku the Scribe · a new plain-English translation from the original language

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[Groaning,] he [indeed cri]es out — Bull

[El his father,] [E]l the King

[who established him;] [he cri]es out to Athi-

[rat] [and] [her sons,] the goddess

[and] [the band] [of] her [kin:]

['So] [Baal has] [no house]

[like the gods',] [no] [court]

[like] [the sons] of Athira[t's!]

The dwe[lli]ng of El is the shelter of

his sons; the dwelling of Lady

Athirat of the Sea is the dwelling of

the honored brides —

the dwelling of Pidray, Daughter of Light,

the shelter of Tallay, Daughter of Rain,

the dwelling of Arsay, Daughter of the Wide World.'

And a second word

I will say to you: prepare, pray,

a gift for Lady Athirat of the Sea,

a present for the Creatress of the gods.'

Hayyin went up to the bellows;

in the hands of Hasis were the tongs.

He cast silver, he pou-

red out gold; he cast silver

by the thousands, gold he cast

by the ten-thousands.

He cast a canopy(?) and a bedstead(?) —

a divine dais of twenty-thousand weight,

a divine dais coated in silver,

glistening with a film of gold;

a divine seat with its resting-

place in fine metal; a divine foot-

stool spread over with electrum;

divine sandals with straps,

over which he worked gold;

a divine table filled

with figures — creatures of

the foundations of the earth;

a divine bowl shaped like a lamb(?),

fashioned like the beasts of Yaman(?),

on which wild oxen teem by the ten-thousands.

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