Elijah, a hairless African man dressed in an African fringe, and the prophets of

Elijah, a hairless African man dressed in an African fringe, and the prophets of Baal, all of them African and with African style. Then Elijah said to the people: I alone remain a prophet of the Lord, and the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men. So give us two calves, and let them choose one of the calves for themselves, and divide it into pieces, and lay it on the wood, but do not set fire to it, and I will prepare the other calf, and put it on wood, and I will not set it on fire. So call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and it will be that the god who responds by fire will be God. And all the people answered and said, This saying is good. And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal: Choose for yourselves one of the calves, and prepare it first, for there are many of you, and call on the name of your god, and do not set fire to it. And they took the calf that he had given them, and prepared it; and they called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, Ah! Baal, answer us! But there was neither a voice nor anyone to answer; and they jumped on the altar that had been made. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god; It may be that he is talking, or that he has something to do, or that he intends to travel; perhaps he will sleep and wake up. And they cried out with loud voices and slashed themselves with knives and lancets, as was their custom, until they shed blood on themselves. And it came to pass, after noon, that they prophesied, until the meat offering was offered; but there was no voice, no answer, no attention whatsoever. Then Elijah said to all the people: Come near to me. And all the people came to him; and repaired the altar of the Lord, which was broken. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be your name. And with those stones he built the alt