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Art and text by Thalia Took:
used with her gracious permisson

"I have killed God. It is just."

Anat is the Phoenician virgin goddess of sacrifice, known for having a violent and war-like temperament. She ritually murders the grain-god Mot, in revenge for the death of her brother Ayelin by Mot's hands. Mot's death is symbolic of cutting the wheat at harvest-time, and Anat's actions allow him to be reborn. Anat presides over burial rituals, making offerings to the gods of the underworld to ensure the dead will be treated well. In the heavens She is the planet Venus, which as the morning and evening star, makes Her both the goddess of war and the goddess of love and sexuality. As Anatha-Baetyl, likely of Syrian origin, she is sometimes called the wife of Jehovah.

Anat represents necessary endings, sacrifices to be made to serve a greater purpose, or old habits that may no longer serve and need to be let go. In this way the field of growth grows green again.

Alternate names: Anaitis, Anait, Anat-bethel, Anatha-Baetyl.