on. Ana must also have been worshipped
tolerably early at Nipur (Rifer), or that city could scarcely have
acquired, by the time of Moses, the appellation of Calneh in the
Septuagint translation, which is clearly Kal Ana, "the fort of Ana."

Ana was supposed to have a wife, Anata, of whom a few words will be said
below. She bore her husband a numerous progeny. One tablet shows a list
of nine of their children, among which, however, no name occurs of any
celebrity. But there are two sons of Ana mentioned elsewhere, who seem
entitled to notice. One is the god of the atmosphere, Vul (?), of whom a
full account will be hereafter given. The other bears the name of Martu,
and may be identified with the _Brathy_ of Sanchoniathon. He represents
"Darkness," or "the West," corresponding to the Erebus of the Greeks.

ANATA.

Anat or Anata has no peculiar characteristics. As her name is nothing
but the feminine form of the masculine Ana, so she herself is a mere
reflection of her husband. All his epithets are applied to her, with a
simple difference of gender. She has really no personality separate from
his, resembling Amente in Egyptian mythology, who is a mere feminine
Ammon. She is rarely, if ever, mentioned in the historical and
geographical inscriptions.

BIL, or ENU.

Bil or Enu is the second god of the first Triad. He is, probably, the
Illinus (_Il-Enu_ or "God Enu ") of Damascius. His name, which seems to
mean merely "lord," is usually followed by a qualificative adjunct,
possessing great interest. It is proposed to read this term as _Nipru,_
or in the feminine _Niprut,_ a word which cannot fail to recall the
Scriptural Nimrod, who is in the Septuagint Nebroth. The term nipru
seems to be formed from the root napar, which is in Syriac to "pursue,"
to "make to flee," and which has in Assyrian nearly the same meaning.
Thus Bil-Nipru would be aptly translated as "the Hunter Lord," or "the
god presiding over the chase," while, at the same time, it might combine
the meaning of "the Conquering Lord" or "the Great Conqueror."

On these grounds it is reasonable to conclude that we have, in this
instance, an admixture of hero-worship in the Chaldaean religion.
Bil-Nipru is probably the Biblical Nimrod, the original founder of the
monarchy, the "mighty hunter" and conqueror. At the same time, however,
that he is this hero deified, he represents also, as the second god of
the first Triad, the classical Jupite