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그는 왕관(티아라)을 사용하였으며 대부분의 시간을 소뿔 두개로 치장하였다. 예술에서 그는 때때로 쟈칼로 묘사되었다.
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He had several consorts, the foremost being [[Ki (goddess)|Ki]] (earth), [[Nammu]], and [[Uras (mythology)|Uras]]. By Ki he was the father of, among others, the [[Annuna]] gods. By Nammu he was the father of, among others, [[Enki]] and [[Ningikuga]]. By Uras he was the father of [[Nin'insinna]]. According to legends, heaven and earth were once inseparable until An and Ki bore Enlil, god of the air, who cleaved heaven and earth in two. An and Ki were, in some texts, identified as brother and sister being the children of [[Anshar]] and [[Kishar]]. Ki later developed into the Akkadian goddess [[Antu (goddess)|Antu]].
He was one of the oldest gods in the [[Mesopotamian mythology|Sumerian]] [[pantheon (gods)|pantheon]], and part of a triad including [[Enlil]], god of the sky and [[Enki]], god of water. He was called '''Anu''' by the [[Akkad]]ians, rulers of [[Mesopotamia]] after the conquest of [[Sumer]] in [[2334 BC]]E by King [[Sargon of Akkad]]. By virtue of being the first figure in a triad consisting of Anu, [[Bel (god)|Bel]] and [[Ea (Babylonian god)|Ea]], Anu came to be regarded as the father and at first, king of the gods. Anu is so prominently associated with the E-anna temple in the city of [[Uruk]] (biblical [[Erech]]) in southern Babylonia that there are good reasons for believing this place to have been the original seat of the Anu cult. If this be correct, then the goddess [[Inanna]] (or [[Ishtar]]) of Uruk may at one time have been his consort.
==Name origin==
An can be translated as "high one." An existed in Sumerian cosmogony as a dome that covered the flat earth; Outside of this dome was the primordial body of water known as [[Tiamat]] (not to be confused with the Subterranean "[[Absu]]"). <ref>Kramer, Samuel N. Sumerian Mythology: a Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania P, 1998.</ref>.
In Sumerian, the designation "An" was used interchangeably with "the heavens" so that in some cases it is doubtful whether, under the term, the god An or the heavens is being denoted. In the old-Babylonian period, ''i.e.'' before [[Hammurabi]], [[Anu]] was regarded as the god of the heavens. {{Fact|date=February 2008}}
==Religious doctrine==
The doctrine once established remained an inherent part of the Babylonian-Assyrian religion and led to the more or less complete disassociation of the three gods constituting the triad from their original local limitations. An intermediate step between Anu viewed as the local deity of [[Uruk]], [[Enlil]] as the god of [[Nippur]], and [[Ea (Babylonian god)|Ea]] as the god of [[Eridu]] is represented by the prominence which each one of the centres associated with the three deities in question must have acquired, and which led to each one absorbing the qualities of other gods so as to give them a controlling position in an organized pantheon. For Nippur we have the direct evidence that its chief deity, [[En-lil]], was once regarded as the head of the [[Sumerian mythology|Sumerian]] [[Pantheon (gods)|pantheon]]. The sanctity and, therefore, the importance of Eridu remained a fixed tradition in the minds of the people to the latest days, and analogy therefore justifies the conclusion that Anu was likewise worshipped in a centre which had acquired great prominence.
The summing-up of divine powers manifested in the universe in a threefold division represents an outcome of speculation in the schools attached to the temples of Babylonia, but the selection of Anu, Enlil (and later [[Marduk]]) and Ea for the three representatives of the three spheres recognized, is due to the importance which, for one reason or the other, the centres in which Anu, Enlil and Ea were worshipped had acquired in the popular mind. Each of the three must have been regarded in his centre as the most important member in a larger or smaller group, so that their union in a triad marks also the combination of the three distinctive pantheons into a harmonious whole.
In the astral theology of Babylonia and Assyria, Anu, Enlil and Ea became the three zones of the [[ecliptic]], the northern, middle and southern zone respectively. The purely theoretical character of Anu is thus still further emphasized, and in the annals and votive inscriptions as well as in the incantations and hymns, he is rarely introduced as an active force to whom a personal appeal can be made. His name becomes little more than a synonym for the heavens in general and even his title as king or father of the gods has little of the personal element in it. A consort [[Antum]] (or as some scholars prefer to read, [[Anatum]]) is assigned to him, on the theory that every deity must have a female associate, but Antum is a purely artificial product--a lifeless symbol playing even less of a part in what may be called the active pantheon than Anu.
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