A major goddess of fertility, sexual love, hunting and war.

She was known among the Canaanites in prehistoric times. From the fertile agricultural area along the eastern Mediterranean coast, her cult had spread throughout the Levant by the middle of the third millennium BCE. Along with her she had thirteen other deities that put her in the shadows and among them were: Hathor, Horus, Nephthys, and Osiris.

On her head she wore a symbol underlining her old kind of work as patroness of domesticated animals: a stylistic cow's uterus. In that roll she was wife of the god Anedjti* and had her main cult centre located at Busiris, capital of nome (province) nine Lower Egypt. Instead of carrying a herdsman's crook like her husband, Anit used to have a "female" staff topped by a flower.

The Elephantine papyri dating from the late sixth century BCE indicate that Anat was one of the two goddesses worshiped at the Temple of Yahu (Yahweh) by the Jews on the island of Elephantine in the Nile