Anshar
Anshar
Axantur
<catset>Category="Akkadian gods"</catset><catset>Category="Gods"</catset><catset>Category="Sky and weather gods"</catset><catset>Category="Sumerian gods"</catset><right><p><table width=30% style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em"><tr align=center style=" background:#f2f2f2"><td style=" border-bottom: 2px solid #ccf"><big><b>Ancient Middle Eastern deities</b></big></td><td></td></tr><tr align=center style=" background:#cdc8b8"><td><b><a href="Levant">Levantine</a> <a href="Semitic gods">Semitic deities</a></b></td></tr><tr align=center><td> <a href="Amurru">Amurru</a> | <a href="Anat">Anat</a> | <a href="Asherah">Asherah</a> | <a href="Astarte">Astarte</a> | <a href="Baal">Ba<font face='Arial Unicode MS,Code2000'>&#703;</font>al</a> | <a href="Dagon">Dagon</a> | <a href="El (god)">El</a> | <a href="Hadad">Hadad</a> | <a href="Mot">Mot</a> | <a href="Yaw (god)">Yaw</a></td><td></td></tr><tr align=center style=" background:#e0d8e0"><td><b><a href="Names of God in Judaism">Names of God in Judaism</a></b></td></tr><tr align=center><td> <a href="Names of God in Judaism">Adonai</a> | <a href="Elohim">Elohim</a> | <a href="Elyon">Elyon</a> | Hashem | <a href="Names of God in Judaism">Sabaoth</a> | <a href="Names of God in Judaism">Shaddai</a> | <a href="Shekhinah">Shekinah</a> | <a href="Tetragrammaton">YHWH</a></td><td></td></tr><tr align=center style=" background:#cdc8b8"><td><b><a href="Mesopotamian mythology">Mesopotamian deities</a></b></td></tr><tr align=center><td> <a href="Adad">Adad</a> | <a href="An (mythology)">An</a>/<a href="Australian National University">Anu</a> | Anshar | <a href="Asshur">Asshur</a> | <a href="Apsū">Abzu/Apsu</a> | <a href="Enki">Enki/Ea</a> | <a href="Enlil">Enlil</a> | <a href="Ereshkigal">Ereshkigal</a> | <a href="Inanna">Inanna</a>/<a href="Ishtar">Ishtar</a> | <a href="Kingu">Kingu</a> | <a href="Kishar">Kishar</a> | <a href="Lahmu">Lahmu</a> & Lahamu | <a href="Marduk">Marduk</a> | <a href="Mummu">Mummu</a> | <a href="Nabu">Nabu</a> | <a href="Nammu">Nammu</a> | <a href="Sin (mythology)">Nanna</a>/<a href="Sin (mythology)">Sin</a> | <a href="Nergal">Nergal</a> | <a href="Ninhursag">Ninhursag/Damkina</a> | <a href="Ninlil">Ninlil</a> | <a href="Tiamat">Tiamat</a> | <a href="Utu">Utu</a>/<a href="Shamash">Shamash</a></td><td></td></tr><tr align=center><td></td></tr></table><p></right> In <a href="Mesopotamian mythology">Akkadian mythology</a> and <a href="Mesopotamian mythology">Sumerian mythology</a>, <b>Anshar</b> (also <b>Anshur</b>, <b>Ashur</b>, <b>Asshur</b>) is the <a href="Sky (disambiguation)">sky</a> <a href="Gates of Discord">god</a>. He is the husband of his sister <a href="Kishar">Kishar</a>; they are the children of Lakhame and Lakhumu, and the parents of <a href="Australian National University">Anu</a>, Anatu and <a href="EA">EA</a> (and, in some traditions, <a href="Enlil">Enlil</a>). Some legends have him defeating <a href="Tiamat">Tiamat</a> during the beginning of <a href="Creation (theology)">creation</a>. He is sometimes depicted as having <a href="Ninlil">Ninlil</a> as a consort. As Anshar, he is progenitor of the Akkadian <a href="Pantheon (gods)">pantheon</a>; as Ashur, he is the head of the Assyrian pantheon.