Yassib

Yassib is the point of the whole epic and he arrives in the last surviving lines. Kirta fought a war to get a wife to get an heir; the heir grows up; the king falls ill and is saved by a goddess El made out of nothing; and then the heir walks in and tells his father that a king who could not get out of bed cannot judge the widow's case or feed the orphan, so he should abdicate. Kirta curses him, invoking Horon and Athtart, and the tablet breaks off. It is an unusually adult piece of writing for the Bronze Age: the boy is not wrong, and the poem does not say he is.

Parentage

• parent: Kirta
• parent: Hurraya

Relations

• sibling: IlhuBrother of Ilhu.Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its royal family. (secondary)
• sibling: ThitmanatBrother of Thitmanat.Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its royal family. (secondary)

Sources

• Yassib is the son of Kirta and Hurraya who declares his recovered father unfit to rule and demands his abdication, and is cursed by him.: The Kirta epic. (primary); Reference treatment of the Kirta epic's closing scene. (secondary)