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Tablet V (KTU 1.5) — Column V

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

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[. . .] Mightiest

[Baal] [. . .] the robe of your yoke(?) —

[. . .] your right hand — the chains(?) —

[. . .] the life of a calf —

[. . . my(?)] [so]n: I will set him in the cavern of

the gods of the underworld. And you — take

your clouds, your wind, your team(?),

your rains; with you, your seven

lads, your eight boar-warriors(?);

with you, Pidray, Daughter of Light;

with you, Tallay, Daughter of Rain. Then

set your face toward Mount

Kankaniya: lift the mountain onto your two hands,

the wooded hill onto your two palms, and go down

into the house of "freedom" — the underworld. Be counted among those

who go down into the earth, and the gods will know

that you have died.' Mightiest Baal obeyed.

He loved a heifer in the pasture-land — a cow

in the fields of the Realm-of-Death's-Shore(?). He lay

with her seventy-seven times;

she let him mou[nt] eighty-eight times;

and she [conce]ived(?) and bore him a boy(?).

. . . [Ba]al clothed him

with [his] ro[be(?) . . .] his . . . as a gift(?) —

[his] righ[t hand(?) . . .] . . . to his breast —

. . . [. . .]

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