The Baal Cycle, Lines 2: Days into months

Baal is dead: Death swallowed him. Time goes by, and his sister Anat searches for him.

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• 2.26-27 Days into months. A day, days go by, from days to months. The Maiden Anat seeks him.
• 2.28-29 Like a cow for her calf. Like the heart of a cow for her calf, like the heart of a…
• 2.30-31 She seizes Death. of Anat for Baal. She seizes the son of El, Mot. With a blade
• 2.32-33 Splits, winnows, burns. she splits him; with a sieve she winnows him; with fire she burns him;
• 2.34-35 She grinds him and sows him. with millstones she grinds him; in the field she sows him. His flesh they…
• 2.36-37 Flesh cries to flesh. the birds; his pieces the fowl… finish off. Flesh cries out to flesh.

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