Crossword-Solution: ANUNIT 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The members of this Triad are again accompanied by female powers or wives,--_Vul_ by a goddess called _Shala_ or _Tala, San_ (the Sun) by _Gula_ or _Anunit,_ and _Hurki_ (the Moon) by a goddess whose name is wholly uncertain, but whose common title is “the great lady.” Such are the gods at the head of the Pantheon.

For two consecutive years he wasted with fire and sword the “upper” or northern provinces, taking the cities of Kurri-Galzu--now Akkerkuf--Sippara of the Sun, and Sippara of Anunit (the Sepharvaim or “two Sipparas” of the Hebrews), and Hupa or Opis, on the Tigris; and finally capturing Babylon itself, which, strong as it was, proved unable to resist the invader.

Rawlinson supposed “that these two figures indicate a distinction between the male and female power of the deity, the disk with four rays symbolizing Shamash, the orb with eight rays being the emblem of Ai, Gula, or Anunit.” [Illustration: 171.jpg SHAMASH IN HIS SHRINE, HIS EMBLEM BEFORE HIM ON THE ALTAR.] Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Rassam.

Shamash, moreover, was surrounded by an actual harem, of which Sirrida was the acknowledged queen, as he himself was its king, and among its members Gula, the great, and Anunit, the daughter of Sin, the morning star, found a place.

The others, notwithstanding the enervating influence to which they were usually subject in the harem, experienced at times inclinations to break into rebellion, and more than one of them, shaking off the yoke of her lord, had proclaimed her independence: Anunit, for instance, tearing herself away from the arms of Shamash, had vindicated, as his sister and his equal, her claim to the half of his dominion.