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Chapter 13  
     
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 Anath goes now to face Mavet, the Darling of El, the Hero.
  
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 As with the heart of a cow toward her calf,
  
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 As with the heart of an ete toward her lamb,
  
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 So is the heart of Anath toward Baal.
  
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 She seizes Mavet, in ripping His garment.
  
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 She closes in on Him, in tearing His clothes.

  
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 She lifts Her voice And shouts: "Come, Mavet, yield My brother!"  
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 And the God Mavet replies: "What does Thou ask, O Virgin Anath?
  
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 I was going, And roaming every mountain to the midst of the earth, Every hill to the midst of the fields.
  
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 A soul was missing among men, A soul of the multitudes of the earth.
  
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 I arrived at the goodness of the land of Debar, The beauty of the fields of Shechelmemet.
  
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 I met Aliyan Baal;  
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 I made Him like a lamb in My mouth.
  
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 Like a kid in My jaws was He crushed."
  
15.
 The Torch of the Gods, Shapash, glows, The heavens stop on account of the God Mavet.
  
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 A day, two days pass.
  
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 From days to months.
  
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 The maiden Anath meets Him.
  
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 As with the heart of a cow toward her calf,
  
20.
 As with the heart of an ewe toward her lamb, So is the heart of Anath toward Baal.
  
21.
 She siezes the God Mavet.
  
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 With a sword She cleaves Him,
  
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 With a pitchfork She winnows Him,
  
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 With a fire She burns Him,
  
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 In the millstones She grinds Him,
  
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 In the fields She plants Him,
  
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 So that the birds do not eat His flesh,
  
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 Nor the fowl destroy His portion.
  
29.
 Flesh calls to flesh.  

 
 
 

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