Anat goddess

Even before the term feminism was coined, we had some subtle feminism going on in our mythology. Every country, region and culture with its share of folktales and mythology have goddesses who were capable of [...]

Anat - Canaanite Goddess of War and Righteous Fury

In this post, I bring you a deity who was, certainly, one of the most important to the ancient Lusitanians, Vettonians, Celtici and Gallaecians. Her name is Ataegina, a goddess with many functions,…

Anat is a goddess of war in ancient Egyptian mythology. She was adopted from Semitic myth into Egyptian culture after the arrival of the Hyksos peoples. She gained a consort; Set. Ana´s origins is unclear, but many people believe that Anat have her origins in the old Babylonian goddess Ḫanat, because sound like and presumably both Anat and Ḫanat have them in the same proto-semetic root. In Ugarit Anat was both the sister and wife of Baal-Hadad, in the Baal´s cycle Anat will kill to her…

Description Anat, Goddess of War - black paints on red linen. The original drawing was made by me and it is featured in Michael W. Ford's grimoire 'Dragon of the Two Flames'. All rights reserved by Anatiummi Arts & Kitti Solymosi.

Set in ancient egyptian religion and myth is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners. In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as Sēth (Σήθ). Set is the son of Geb, the Earth, and Nut, the Sky; his siblings are Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys. He married Nephthys and fathered Anubis and in some accounts, he had relationships with the foreign goddesses Anat and Astarte. From these relationships is said to be born a crocodile deity called Maga. Set had a positive role…

Originally a pencil drawing, colourised in Photoshop, depicting Anat, Levantine goddess of love and war. Spouse of Baal.

Photographed at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.