Geography/Culture: Christianised wide-spread Middle-Eastern Goddess. She is especially honoured in Spain and Brittany.
Linguistic Note: Her name is the Anglesized form of Late Latin and Late Greek Anna, for Hebraic (Old Testament given name) Hannah, {H1N1}, 'Graciousness, favour', from the stem of hanah, 'be gracious', with variants: Ana, Anah. AHDEL; Walker WEMS 38, 68. However apparently a Babylonian or Pelasgian Anna was already known Whose name may have been seen as cognate, see Her Linguistic note, below.
Description: Originally: Great Grandmother Goddess of the earth and fertility.
Christianised and demoted to mortal sainthood as: Glorious, Blessed, most tender and compassionate Grandmother of God; Happy Mother; She Who surrounds those Who call upon Her with powerful and efficacious matronage; She Who is abundantly adorned with virtue and sanctity; Protectress against all dangers in life; She Who assists at the hour of death; Matron of midwives and miners.
To Whom Sacred: five-pointed star.
Festival: July 26.
Male Associate: consorts, Joachim, and two others. (In early Christianity She conceived without the action of man). Mother of many saints.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She has a shrine in Limerick, Ireland, which stands on ground formerly consecrated to the Goddess Ana, Queen, the Beneficent, linked with Danu, She-of-Knowledge.
• See also Pelasgian Anna, below.
• Perhaps Her name is ultimately etymologically related to Hittie Hannahannas, Grandmother.
• Mother of Mary, {Sea-Queen}.
• Christian forename: Saint, (linked with glossary), Worthy-of-Veneration.

Geography/Culture: Pelasgian.
Linguistic Note: the syllable an-, is Sumerian for 'heaven'. The various possible translations of Anna may all be understood as feminized expression of the sky, or 'Heaven', as dominantly enfolding. The (apparently Greek) element -one, sometimes rendered (perhaps more accurately), -on, which is usually translated as 'Lady', (as in Hesione, Lady-of-Asia, Salmaone, Lady-of-the-East) appears {to me} to be etymologically related to -ana.
Description: Goddess of the moon.
Male Associates: brother, Belus.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Celtic Irish Áine, Queen, Who is linked with Danu, She-of-Knowledge, is also called Anna, Queen.
• Perhaps having the variant: Ana, Mother, (Who is linked with Danu, She-of-Knowledge).
• She may have originated as Sumerian Anna-Nin, {Lady-of-Heaven}, below.
• Perhaps origin of Italian: Anna-Perenna, Everlasting-Queen, Who is linked with Annona, Fruitful-Year.
• Late Latin and Late Greek name for Anglesized Christian Saint-Anne.
• Celtic British Annis, {Blue-Hag}, has alternate names which include Ana as forename and Anna as and surname.

Geography/Culture: Sumerian.
Linguistic Note: The syllable Nin is covered in the glossary. For the anna- element, see Anna's Linguisitc Note above.
Description: Great Goddess.
Male Associate: Her forename, masculinized, became: Anu, God of the sky.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Anu's consort, presumably an aspect of, or Anna-Nin, {Lady-of-Heaven}, Herself, was called Anatu, Graceful-One, below.
• Perhaps the origin of Pelasgian Anna, above.
• It has been suggested that the element anna- in Hindustani Annapurna, Giver-of-Food, is etymologically related to Sumerian Anna. {The etymology I have recourse to doesn't verify this suggestion, but heaven, as air, is we now know, intimately related to food}.
• It has been suggested the element -ene in Greek Athene, {I-Have-Come-From-Myself}, may originate from Sumerian Anna, Queen.
• The element -ana in the name of Diana, Divine-Queen, may be etymologically related to Sumerian Anna.
• The element -enna in the name of Canaanite Marienna, High-Fruitful-Mother-of-Heaven, (Who is linked with Mary, {Sea-Queen}), may also be etymologically related to Sumerian Anna.
• The form Nana, Old-Queen, may be a corruption or diminutive of Anna-Nin, Lady-of-Heaven.
• Anna-Nin is identified with Persian Ana-Hid, ----, Who is linked with Anahita, Immaculate-One.
• Anna-Nin's name is sometimes inverted to Nin-Anna, below.

Geography/Culture: Babylonia.
Description: Chief Goddess of the highest heaven, sky and air.
To Whom Sacred: {nitrogen; oxygen}.
Male Associate: consort, Anu, --- of Erech, chief God of the highest heaven.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps cogate with Anath, .
• Perhaps a form of, or alternate name for Anna-Nin, Lady-of-Heaven, above.
• Variant: Antu.
• Variant: Antum.
• See also Ashratum, , (Who is linked with Asherah, ), Whose consort is also Anu.
• Perhaps Mother of Gula, , (Who is linked with Gula-Bau, ), since Anu is Gula's father.
• See also Ishtar, , Whose consort is also Anu.

Geography/Culture: Sumerian.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Inversion of Anna-Nin, Lady-of-Heaven, above.
• Perhaps an original form of which Sumerian: Inanna, Queen-of-Heaven, is a diminutive or corruption.
• Some say Nin-Anna is to recognized in Assyrian Nin-Eveh, NEN-]VA, Holy-Lady-of-Life, (Who is linked with Eve, ), under which name She (Nin-Anna) was the eponym of the city Nineveh.