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Depictions

There is no precise description of how she looked like and no picture!

Do we need the "`A" in `Anat?

See the related discussions at Talk:Eilat, including:

I wish people wouldn't assume Hebrew has some relevance to everything ANE, expecially where we are talking a period before Akkadian spins off from Sumerian. In Egyptian Anat is spelled with the trilieral ant. where t is the feminine determinative. Anat also gets the determinative for goddess.

That relates her attributes to anna or ianna.

Forms of Anat/Anath can be dound in Sumerian which is unclassified, also Afro asiatic Egyptian, Akkadian which is Semitic and Hittite which is IE. You can make the case that as a war godess she goes back to about 2600 BC where her name is linked with Ha Dad or Ba el. By the time she shows up in Ugarit her worship is a part of most of the cultures between Ugarit and Egypts delta.

Ha is the semitic definitive article so Hadad means "the Dad". Ba is the Egyptian word for desire and el is western semitic for power. Baal or Bael (desire for power) or el = (power). As the consort of the desire for power Anat represents the desire for war. When we are going to use her semitic as opposed to Afro asiatic Egyptian or IE Hittite titles then we ought to restrict that to periods of time when semitic languages actually exist. For Hebrew that comes relatively late and has little relevance to either Baal or Anat. The most famouse stele referencing Anat does so in the context of Min of Egypt, Reseph of Syria, Qetesh of Canaan and dates to the reign of Thutmosis III. Rktect (talk) 17:26, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

`Elyôn

The article titled `Elyôn also needs to be changed as its `E is not in normal use and would only confuse most readers. IZAK 07:34, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Similar problem with `Anat. IZAK 07:40, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Neither of these terms have a "usual" English transliteration, so the problem here is much less accute than it is in articles about modern cities or regions. I do agree though that these transliterations are strange in that there is no way that anyone is ever going to guess them and type "`Elyôn" into the "go" box. The backticks (`) are indeed accepted transliterations of ayin, though, so I don't know if to suggest to remove it or not. I don't understand the accent-circumflex on the o though. In French, the accent-circumflex suggests that a letter has been lost, and this is not the case here. Nyh 09:34, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Placing these comments (so far) on the `Elyôn and `Anat pages so that their author can take note... IZAK 10:01, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wheel of Time

While I don't doubt that the WoT character's name comes from `Anat, I don't think this is the place for that information. Shouldn't it be in one of the WoT articles, with a link back here? 168.12.253.82 15:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I moved it to a "popular culture" heading for the nonce, as has been done with similar trivia in other articles. Mhari 06:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merging of Anat/Anath

I notice that these articles have a suggested merging notice upon them. Looking at the content of both, it seems to be a fair suggestion. In fact, Anath could possibly be re-directed to Anat as it seems to be merely a different spelling of the same name. Opinions? Silverthorn 16:43, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well it is a different spelling of the same name, but putting everything under "Anat" still calls for the spelling Anath to be used in the transliteration of the Hebrew name, as the name ends with Taw which is always pronounced "th" at the end of a word (not in modern hebrew though)

Capital of the Hyksos

In "Anat in Egypt" is said that the capital of the Hyksos was Tanis. This is a quite old hypothesis. Ongoing excavations show that the capital of the Hyksos Avaris is identical to Pi-Ramasses, not Tanis. Siffler 11:32, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Asenath 'holy to Anath' was the wife of the Hebrew patriarch Joseph."

The article makes this bold assertion (in the section "Anath in Israel") on the Ancient Egyptian etymology of the name Asenath. This is also asserted in the article "Asenath". Can someone provide a citation from a solid modern philological scholarly source for this assertion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Setmose (talk • contribs) 16:47, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to that on the subject of the Ancient Israel section I also see no source for their claim that she was worshiped at Elephantine.