Editing Anshar (section)

===Anshar and Anu===
Anshar could be regarded as the father of [[Anu]].{{sfn|Lambert|2013|p=448}} He is one of the deities belonging to the so-called "theogony of Anu", a conventional term used in [[Assyriology]] to refer to listings of the latter's ancestors.{{sfn|Lambert|2013|p=417}} They are typically less systematic than better known enumerations of the [[ancestors of Enlil]],{{sfn|Lambert|2013|p=406}} and in many cases [[Alalu#Mesopotamian sources|Alala]] and [[Belili]] are Anu's parents instead of Anshar and Kishar.{{sfn|Lambert|2013|p=448}} The oldest attestation of the tradition presenting Anshar as Anu s father is the [[Old Babylonian Empire|Old Babylonian]] forerunner of the god list ''[[An = Anum]]'', but no other references to it are known from this period.{{sfn|Lambert|2013|p=417}}

Anu and Anshar could alternatively be equated with each other.{{sfn|Lambert|2013|p=303}} A god list with the [[incipit]] ''Anšar = Anu'' was in circulation in the first millennium BCE.{{sfn|Beaulieu|2003|p=332}} In the bilingual poem ''Exaltation of [[Ishtar]]'' Anshar corresponds to Anu in the [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] version, with Kishar analogously representing [[Antu (goddess)|Antu]].{{sfn|Lambert|2013|p=422}} ''An = Anum'' (tablet I, line 8) equates Anshar with both Anu and Antu (''<sup>[[dingir|d]]</sup>a-nu-um u <sup>d</sup>a-n-tu'').{{sfn|Beaulieu|2003|p=331}} Further examples are available from various scholarly texts from Uruk postdating the [[Neo-Babylonian Empire|Neo-Babylonian period]], in which <sup>d</sup>AN.ŠÁR(.GAL) is used as a logographic representation of Anu's name.{{sfn|Beaulieu|1997|p=70}} However, Julia Krul stresses that equations of deities with their fathers represent speculation mostly typical for god lists, and did not necessarily influence the sphere of [[Cult (religious practice)|cult]].{{sfn|Krul|2018|p=15}}