Geography/Culture: Her worship was introduced to Persia {fron where? and was She known by this name there?} by Artaxerxes II (404-362 BC), who built for Her altars and set up Her statues in Babylon, Susa, Ekbatana, Persepolis, Baktra, Damaskos and Sardes. Zorastrian, Goddess of the Avesta. Armenia: Sanctuary at Erez in Akilisene. Perhaps Her worship spread from Assyria. Widely worshipped in the Achaemenid empire.
Description: Virgin, wanton, Motherly Goddess of Earth, water, weather, fecundity, procreation and war; Personification of the reproductive energies of Nature; She Who multiples herds and wealth; She may be invoked by marriageable girls, and by women at the time of childbirth; She Who brings easy child-birth and bestows ample milk to women; Purifier of the seed of men; Bestower of victory; She Whose chariot is drawn by the four white horses 'Wind', 'Rain', 'Clouds' and 'Hail'; Mother of all wisdom; Queen; Benefactress of humanity.
To Whom Sacred: bull; otter; white-horse; the number 30 (the number of otter-skins She wears); gold; the planet Venus (which She personifies, and which was perhaps called Anahita); a supernatural spring (located in the region of the stars from which flow all rivers of the world); sacred-marriage ritual; temple prostitution -- by high-born women before marriage (the union of sexes at Her sanctuary and in Her name, by re-enacting the divine marriage -- perhaps every woman symbolized Herself -- ensured fruitfulness of the soil, increase of humanity and live-stock).
Iconography: She is described as a beautiful Maiden, powerful and tall, Her girdle fastened high, wrapped in a gold-embroidered cloak, wearing earrings, necklace, crown of gold, adorned with thirty otter-skins.
Male Associate: Mithra, he may also have been Her consort.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• As Goddess of fertility She was identified by the Greeks with their Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replication.
• The Persians called Her Ana-Hid, ----, below.
• Anna-Nin, {Lady-of-Heaven}, (Who is linked with Anne, Graceful-One), has been identified with Anahita, Immaculate-One.
• Greek language variant: Anaitis, {Blameless-One}, below.
• Also called Ardvi-Sura-Anahita , The-High-Powerful-Immaculate.
• Compare with Russian Mati-Syra-Zemlja, Moist-Mother-Earth.
• In the Hellenistic world She was commonly called the Persian-Artemis
• As Goddess of war She was identified by the Greeks with their Athene, Immortal-One.
• In Lydia, Armenia and Cappadocia, She was identified with pre-Phrygian Cybele, She-with-the-Axe.
• She has been confounded with Artemis-Tauropolus, Artemis-Bull-Slayer, Who is linked with Iphigeneia, Mothering-a-Strong-Race.

Geography/Culture: Persian.
Description: They called the planet Venus, Ana-Hid, ----, after Her.
To Whom Sacred: Temple prostitution.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• I think this name is certainly a variant, or transcription variant of Anahita, Immaculate-One, above.
• Probably transliteration variant: Ana-Hita.
• Like Anahita, Immaculate-One, Ana-Hid, ----, was Identified with Cybele, She-With-the-Axe.

Geography/Culture: Greek: Lydian, Thracian.
Linguistic Note: This may be simply a Hellenization of the Anahita, Immaculate-One, (original language uncertain) but the following is of interest -- the Greek word alpha-nu-alpha-iota-tau-iota-omikron-sigma, (anaitios), means 'guiltless, blameless', and seems to match 'immaculate' as a translation of Anahita.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Variant, Anaeitis {or possibly a typo of mine, FW}.
• Adopted title of Artemis. High-Source-of-Water.
• Greek authors state Her worship corresponded exactly with the worship of Babylonian Ishtar, Light-Giving, after Whom Her representations were often shaped.