Anu (Chaldean)

One of the Great babyloninan dieties., "King of Angles and Spirits, Lord of the city of Erech". Ruler and God of Heaven and Earth. His symbol is a star and a kind of Maltese cross - embems of divinity and sovereignty. He is an abstract divinity supposed to inform the whole expense of ethereal space or heaven, while his "wife" informs the more material planes. Both are the types of the Ouranos and Gaia of Hesiod. They sprang from the original chaos. All his titles and attributes are vivid and indicate health, purity (physical and moral), antiquity and holiness. One of his sons was Bil or Vil-kan, the God of fire, relatebale to Tubal Cain and Vulcan.