Baal Cycle
Then they indeed set their faces towards Kothar-wa-Hasis, towards Egypt, of all of which he is god. Create the throne of his dwelling, Egypt the land of his inheritance, over a thousand miles, ten thousand leagues.
At the feet of Kothar they bowed and fell down, they paid him homage and honoured him.
And they said to Kothar-wa-Hasis, they declared to Hayin, who is the ambidextrous craftsman:
“Message of Bull El your father, word of the Wise One, your progenitor:
Kothar, build, place in the foundry, prepare in the mountain a dwelling. Grasp your spear and your mace; let your feet hasten to me, let your legs hurry to me, towards the mountain, towards Mount Throne.
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Hurry! Hasten! [Rush!] [To me let your feet hasten],
to me let your [legs] hurry, [towards the mountain],
For I have a word that I would say to you, a message that I would repeat to you:
A word of tree and whisper of stone, the sighing of the heavens to the earth, of the deep to the stars. A word unknown to men, and which the multitudes of the earth do not understand.
Come, and I shall reveal it in the midst of my divine mountain, Sapan.”
And Kothar-wa-Hasis replied: “Go, go! attendants of the gods! You may delay, but I shall hurry from Crete of the remotest of the gods, Egypt of the remotest of the chthonian gods, two layers beneath the springs of the earth, three expanses of the depths.”
two layers beneath [the springs of the earth], [three expanses]
Then he set his face towards the Wise One, the perceptive god, towards his mountain, Mount Throne.
He rolled back the tent of El, and he entered the pavilion of the King, the Father of the Bright One.
At the feet of El he bowed and fell down.
he paid homage [and honoured him].
Bull El, [his] father:
“Quickly [build a house], [quickly raise a palace]
in the midst of […]
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Compare KTU 1.1 III:4 and Genesis 4:22
Ancient Near East, Ugaritic · Hebrew Bible
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KTU 1.1 III:4
Ancient Near East, Ugaritic · Cuneiform Texts from UgaritGenesis 4:22
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