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informs him about Tiamat plotting against the younger deities, which prompts Anshar to blame him and task him with finding a solution. After he fails, Anshar sends Anu to attempt to solve the issue, but he is similarly unsuccessful. Ea eventually convinces him that the only god who can defeat Tiamat
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Beaulieu argues that the identification between Anshar and Ashur was additionally meant to facilitate equating the latter with Anu. He suggests this might have been the reason why Anu's prominence in the local pantheon of Uruk increased from the fifth century BCE onward. Julia Krul disagrees with
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this proposal, and points out that while it is plausible that in Uruk the clergy might have accepted the equation between Anshar and Ashur, there is no evidence that the latter was viewed as related to Anu, or that theological ideas pertaining to him influenced Anu's cult.
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to inform Lahmu and Lahamu about his decision to rely on Marduk. After emerging victorious, Marduk replaces Anshar as the new king of the gods. The latter is the first deity to provide him with new names. He states that Marduk will be known as
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immigrants. In the former case, the worship of Ashur in Uruk would most likely reflect a political alliance between local elites and the Assyrian state, as there is no evidence his cult was imposed in any
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period, four of which come from the same copy, refers to Anshar as the father of Anu. While restoration of the text remains uncertain, it is possible that it describes his death at the hands of
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and others. Such enumerations are embedded in a number of expository or ritual texts. In one case, Anshar is equated in this context with the minor underworld god
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periods, but it is uncertain when his cult was introduced to the city. It might have originally been established either when the city was under the control of the
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had not been created" but "city and house were in existence", which reflects the role of Marduk (and thus Ashur) more accurately than that of Anshar himself.
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are Anu's parents instead of Anshar and Kishar. The oldest attestation of the tradition presenting Anshar as Anu s father is the
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it became the conventional writing of Ashur's name. The goal of this equation was to establish the seniority of Ashur over
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and Ninamakalla, which would indicate it preserves a succession narrative in which the actively worshiped members of the
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to refer to listings of the latter's ancestors. They are typically less systematic than better known enumerations of the
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The Splintered Divine: A Study of Istar, Baal, and Yahweh: Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East
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This goddess is addressed as Enki's sister in this composition, but she is otherwise only known from the
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the logogram AN.ŠÁR could be used to represent the name of the supreme deity of the state pantheon,
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The goddess Kishar ("whole earth") was regarded as Anshar's spouse. They appear together in the
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states that Anshar sending Anu to confront Tiamat corresponds to the celebrations during which
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Piotr Steinkeller notes that the association between Anshar and Ashur might explain why
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suggests that the logogram AN.ŠÁR also designates Assur in texts from Neo-Babylonian
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The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk
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Anu and Anshar could alternatively be equated with each other. A god list with the
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and subsequently partakes in further name-giving alongside Lahmu and Lahamu.
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Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses: Anšar and Kišar (god and goddess)
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Anshar appears in multiple lists of defeated primordial figures alongside
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rather than in Babylonia, appears as a messenger of the former in the
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was in circulation in the first millennium BCE. In the bilingual poem
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as "the whole heaven". Benjamin R. Foster suggests that together with
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A reference to Anshar has been identified in a quotation from
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he was understood as the personification of the circle of the
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As attested for the first time in sources from the reign of
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68593) Kishar is instead the spouse of the star Gudanna (
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A myth only known from five fragments dated to either
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The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian period
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focused on establishing a connection between him and
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University of Chicago Press: 289–294. 1522: 1021: 604:, mentions Anshar in passing and refers to 138: 262:Anshar could be regarded as the father of 1361: 1333: 1006: 994: 982: 970: 958: 926: 899: 801: 745: 1495: 1474: 1297: 1285: 1273: 1237: 1225: 1213: 1177: 1165: 1153: 1141: 1105: 1093: 1033: 914: 887: 875: 863: 846: 816: 786: 728: 438:resulted in his incorporation into the 220:is presumed to be a variant of Anshar. 41:question marks, boxes, or other symbols 1593: 1418: 1261: 1249: 1129: 1117: 1081: 1069: 1057: 1045: 757: 169:representation of the head god in the 1500:. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. 1388: 1314: 1201: 1189: 831: 769: 547: 532:with various ritual observances from 201:as AN.ŠÁR. It can be translated from 192: 1445: 943: 676:Kakka is a messenger of Anu instead. 505:tentatively dated to the reign from 477:. Anshar then summons his attendant 336: 13: 1343:State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 216:The theonym Anshargal attested in 14: 1632: 1579: 689:god list, where she occurs after 309:Anshar corresponds to Anu in the 257: 43: instead of cuneiform script. 21: 1529:Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1395:The Literature of Ancient Sumer 1307: 679: 660: 592:A royal hymn from the reign of 411:, a deity chiefly worshiped in 224:Associations with other deities 133: 456:, or instead a second pair of 234:and in the exorcistic formula 1: 1366:. Leiden Boston: Brill STYX. 1362:Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (2003). 704: 650:, but not identical with it. 427: 197:Anshar's name was written in 1606:Characters in the Enūma Eliš 1525:"The Mesopotamian God Kakka" 1496:Lambert, Wilfred G. (2013). 1484:Reallexikon der Assyriologie 1423:. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press. 1419:Foster, Benjamin R. (2005). 422: 391:, or later on by a group of 373:was a descendant of Anshar. 123: 7: 1523:Steinkeller, Piotr (1982). 1398:. 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Index

cuneiform script
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Tiamat
Abzu
Kishar
Anu
Neo-Assyrian Akkadian
Mesopotamian god
king of the gods
Anu
logographic
Assyrian
Ashur
An = Anum
Enūma Eliš
cuneiform
Sumerian
Kishar
horizon
god lists
Enūma Eliš
BM
Enlil
Shuruppak
Anu
Assyriology
ancestors of Enlil
Alala
Belili

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