Birth of the Gracious and Beautiful Gods (Shachar and Shalim)
KTU 1.23
El fathers the twin gods Dawn and Dusk on two wives he seduces at the seashore, and the ritual instructions bracketing their birth treat the myth not as entertainment but as a liturgy meant to secure fertility for the community reciting it.
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