Anat, Baal and Ishtar, Oh My!

Just back from a birthday party for Anat, the dancer me and John met at Burning Man. Interesting, some nudity — The nudity helped (!) slightly because it was sometimes to difficult to recognize people with their clothes on or bodies unpainted after a week in the Nevada desert looking at the zits on their arses.

I bought some glows from this travelling glow salesman with a big baggie of cool toys. There was a drum circle, lots of booty was shaken (shook?), hot tubs, old fat men’s naked todgers in full effect (John would have been delighted I’m sure).

Did a search for Anat and Burning Man on Google… surprise surprise, gets hits concerning “flamboyant” and “energetic”. Most people would have to consume vast quantites of meth to get into anything like her high-energy state.

Hmmm. Her full name’s Anat Shamash. Shamash is apparently the Mediterranean pre-Judeo pagan sun god, the wheel design. What many people have as a tattoo on their shoulders or lower backs. Often identified with Baal and Ishtar, which makes a holy trinity of party gods I guess.

For some unknown reason, some of the catholic Popes’ funky hats carry a combined sigil of Baal, Ishtar, and Anat. Those pointy Egyptian obelisks, like the one in Washington that the Americans stole for their capital city, that’s a Shamash obelisk, meant to honour the sun god. It’s all connected. Insert your conspiracy theory here.

The goddess Anat was the Great Goddess of the Ugaritic pantheon and had 4 separate aspects: Warrior, Mother, Virgin and Wanton. Mother of all nations, Virgin Mistress of the gods. She was worshipped by Canaanites, Amorites, Syrians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and Hebrews. Anat is seen as a virgin, mother, and sacred whore who was an aggressive and ruthless warrior Goddess who wades in the blood of her enemies. The template for the Mary Magdalene character in some of the Christian gospels. Baal and her had sex while she was in “bovine form” which doesn’t sound too hot at all… Anat looked much better tonight at the party.

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