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- His consort is Kishar which means " Whole Earth ".
- With her brother Lahmu she is the mother of Anshar and Kishar, who were in turn parents of the first gods.
- Kishar may represent the earth as a counterpart to Anshar, the sky, and can be seen as an earth mother goddess.
- Kishar appears only once in Enuma Elish, in the opening lines of the epic, and then disappears from the remainder of the story.
- In the Akkadian epic Enuma Elish, "'Kishar "'is the daughter of Lahmu and Lahamu, the first children of Tiamat and Abzu.
- He and his sister La + amu are the parents of Anshar and Kishar, the sky father and earth mother, who birthed the gods of the Mesopotamian Pantheon.
- The intention seems to have been to put Ashur at the head of the Babylonian pantheon, where Anshar and his counterpart Kishar ( " whole earth " ) preceded even Enlil and Ninlil.
- In some legends Ki and An were brother and sister, being the offspring of Anshar ( " Sky Pivot " ) and Kishar ( " Earth Pivot " ), earlier personifications of heaven and earth.