knew that it presaged the rains, but of how all this came about they had no idea; Baal, however, understood it, and the myth is content to leave it at that. When Anat arrives on Zephon she is immediately despatched by Baal to the abode of the supreme god El to ask his permission to have a palace built. El’s reply is not preserved but must have been negative or at any rate non-committal, for Baal then sends Qodesh-and-Amrur, the attendant of El’s consort Athirat, to Egypt to ask Kothar-and-Khasis