Anat
Canaanite · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Violent warrior-huntress and 'Maiden' (btlt); sister and champion of Baal who avenges and revives him.
Parentage
- paternal: El
Domains
- war
- the hunt
Powers
- Slaughter warriors and wade knee-deep in their blood
- Cleave, winnow, and grind the death-god like grain
- Crush cosmic monsters including the seven-headed serpent
Epithets
- btlt ʿnt The Maiden Anat; her constant formulaic titleBaal Cycle, KTU 1.3-1.6; Aqhat epic (recurrent formula) (primary)
- ybmt lʾimm Sister-in-law / progenitress of the peoples (disputed); her stock epithetBaal Cycle, KTU 1.3 II.33; III.12 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: KirtaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (El) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: MotFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (El) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: ShapshuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (El) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: YamFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (El) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- enemy: TunnanuOne of the sea monsters in the catalogue of victories Anat recites: she strikes down the seven heads of Tunnanu. Reciprocal added with the Tunnanu record.Reference treatment of Anat's catalogue of victories, in which she strikes down the seven heads of the twisty serpent Tunnanu. (secondary)
- equated with: AtargatisReciprocal of aramean_atargatis.equated-with — The second element of Atarʿate continues ʿAnat — the Aramean goddess absorbs Anat's identity alongside Astarte's. Anat's warrior ferocity survives only faintly in Atargatis's lion-throne.DDD (2nd ed. 1999), s.v. 'Atargatis' (secondary)
- interpretatio: AthenaReciprocal of greek_hesiod_athena.interpretatio — Cypriot bilingual equates Anat with Athena Soteira Nike. Preserves the virgin war-goddess; breaks on Anat's blood-wading ferocity and grief for Baal — Athena's warfare is disciplined, never frenzied.KAI 42 (Phoenician-Greek bilingual, Larnax tis Lapithou: Anat = Athena Soteira Nike) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Ugaritic Baal Cycle (KTU 1.1–1.6) (primary); Aqhat Epic (KTU 1.17–1.19) (primary)