Anat
Anat is an ancient Near Eastern goddess who wears a necklace of heads and a belt of severed hands. Some argue that she shares characteristics with the Hindu goddess Kālī.
↻ synthesized from 22 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in the Baal Cycle, dating to the Late Bronze Age.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Tanit, Ḥoranu, Kušuḫ, Ea-šarri, Queen of Heaven, Ashtoreth, Miket, Tukh Manuk, Dagon, Uni-Astre, Yarikh, Ḫanat, Lim, Dadmiš, Kinnaru, Gaṯaru, Hauron, Shatiqatu, Arsaphes, Shahar, Tunnanu, Horon, Attapar, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Rahmay, Ba'al-Ḥammon, Maga, Kebechet, Nebethetepet, Iusaaset, Qed-her, Nehmetawy, Abaset, Khereduankh, Baalat Gebal, Hatmehit, Henet, Pelican, Iabet, Iat, Meret, Nehbet-anet, Ay, Nebtuwi, Ahmose-Nefertari, Ahti, Amathaunta, Amn, Anet, Anhefta, Anit, Anuke, Aperet-Isis, Bairthy, Besna, Esna, Hedetet, Heptet, Heret-Kau, Hert-ketit-s, Hert-Nemmat-Set, Hert-sefu-s, Heru-pa-kaut, Heset, Hetepes-Sekhus, Iaret, Ipy, Iw, Ken, Khefthernebes, Matit, Nakith, Perit, Pesi, Qerhet, Rekhit, Aramazd, Sarpanit, Astghik, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Shapshu, Arsay, Kothar, Gupan, Ugar, Tallay, Qudšu, Amrur, Shapash, Qodesh-wa-Amrur, Sheger, Ithm, Milku, Mnevis, kali, Sekhmet, Śiva, Shamash, Belet Nagar, Teshub, Adad, Nikkal, Šauška, Kumarbi, Pišaišapḫi, Asherah, Hera, Inanna, Juno, Yahweh, Amun, Eshmun, Ištar, Išḫara, Ptah, Ninurta, Dagan, Shalim, Isis, Nut, Geb, Qetesh, Amesemi, Mehit, Ammit, Meretseger, Mehet-Weret, Khensit, Mafdet, Meskhenet, Iunit, Raet-tawy, Beset, ʿAṯtar, Hayk, Anāhitā, Vahagn, Yam, Athtar, Lotan, Baʿal, Ra, Osiris, Anubis, Nephthys, Horus, Thoth, Apophis, sphinxes, Hathor
- allied with
- Ashtart, Shapshu, Baal, ʿAṯtartu, Athirat, Baʿal Hadad, Šimige, Ba'al Hadad, Aštabi, Nupatik, Ilib, Pidray, ‘Athtart
- syncretized with
- Athena
- sibling of
- Astarte
- serves
- Set
Mentioned by
- kali
- Sekhmet
- Śiva
- Shamash
- Belet Nagar
- Teshub
- Adad
- Nikkal
- Šauška
- Kumarbi
- Pišaišapḫi
- Asherah
- Hera
- Inanna
- Juno
- Yahweh
and 51 more
Sources
Source passages
“a necklace of heads and a belt of severed hands like Anat, and drinking blood like the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet and that therefore that her character might have been influenced by them. A myth describes how Kali became ecstatic with the joy of battle and slaughter while killing demons, and refused to stop until she was pacified by her consort, Shiva, who threw himself under her feet.”
#14106 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“After Anat discovers Baal's body in KTU 1.6 i 8-18, she begins to weep, at which point Shapshu helps Anat lift his body onto her shoulder so that she can carry it to Mount Sapan for burial.”
#16121 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In one of the offering lists, he appears between Anat, a local goddess apparently incorporated into the Hurrian pantheon, and Nikkal. In another, a part of a mixed Ugaritic-Hurrian ritual dedicated to the goddess Ashtart, he is placed between Anat and the mountain god Pišaišapḫi.”
#17385 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the pantheon of Ugarit, especially in the Ugaritic goddess Anat (Hvidberg-Hansen 1982).”
#18981 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“There was a temple of Yahweh in Egypt at that time, the 6th–7th centuries BCE, that was central to the Jewish community at Elephantine in which Yahweh was worshipped in conjunction with the goddess Anath (also named in the temple papyri as Anath-Bethel and Anath-Iahu).”
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