Thitmanat

Thitmanat is called 'the eighth' because she is, and the epic makes a point of El having blessed Kirta so that the youngest would hold the rank of the firstborn — which is the kind of clause that turns up again in a great deal of later Near Eastern literature. Her scene at the sickbed is what the Kirta epic is remembered for outside specialist reading: a daughter weeping over a father who is not supposed to be able to die, because a king is a son of El, and finding out that he can.

Parentage

• Kirta
• Hurraya

Relations

• sibling: Yassib
• sibling: Ilhu

Sources

• The Kirta epic.
• Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its cast.