The provenance file on ꜥAnat
The provenance file for ꜥAnat. Nothing here is unsourced; that is what the file is for.
Provenance
1. The attestation. Ἀνάθ — "Canaanite warrior goddess, sister and ally of Baꜥal". On record: KTU (Ugaritic texts), CIS, Coogan, Stories from Ancient Canaan, Smith, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle.
2. The narrative record. Wading in Blood — In KTU 1. 3 ii, ꜥAnat returns from battle in exultation: 'Heads rolled beneath her like balls, hands flew over her like locusts. Avenger of Baꜥal — When Mot, Death, swallows Baꜥal and the rains fail, ꜥAnat searches the wilderness for her brother. Finding Mot, she attacks him with a sword, winnows him like grain, burns him, grinds him, and scatters him in a field (KTU 1.
3. The physical record. The Ugaritic tablets from Ras Shamra (KTU 1.3, 1.6, 1.17–19) preserve her warrior mythology in alphabetic cuneiform. In Egypt, bronze figurines and scarabs from Tanis, Memphis, and the eastern Delta identify her as ꜥnt(t), a Levantine war goddess absorbed into the New Kingdom pantheon. The stela from Beth-Shean and Israelite place names such as Anathoth and the epithet Shamgar ben-Anath attest her cult west of the Jordan.
4. The current holding. The temple at /sites/anat/, classified Tier 1. Tier-1 is not a compliment; it is a measurement. This restoration keeps something the ASCII form provably loses, and the measurement is repeatable.
5. The documented resonances. Defense, Military & Security, Forestry, Conservation & Outdoor Industries, Sports, Fitness & Competition — seats argued and weighted in the pattern atlas, read through the myths in this temple's Resonance File.
6. The primary sources. Enūma Eliš — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.
7. The continuing record. The name ꜥAnat echoes across millennia in unexpected ways. The Israelite town of Anathoth (Jeremiah's birthplace) carries her name.
At a Glance
- Restored name: ꜥAnat
- ASCII form: anat
- Meaning: "Canaanite warrior goddess, sister and ally of Baꜥal"
- Domain of influence: Goddess of War and the Hunt
- Pantheon: Canaanite
- Classification: Tier 1
- Original script: 𐎓𐎐𐎚
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 19 of 287
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