In order to furnish him with a larger supply, the victims were piled up on his hands with a big chain above them which kept them in their place.

Some devout persons had at the beginning wished to count them, to see whether their number corresponded with the days of the solar year; but others were brought, and it was impossible to distinguish them in the giddy motion of the horrible arms.

This lasted for a long, indefinite time until the evening.

Then the partitions inside assumed a darker glow, and burning flesh could be seen.

Some even believed that they could descry hair, limbs, and whole bodies.
Night fell; clouds accumulated above the Baal.