Antu appears in Akkadian texts mostly as a rather colorless consort of Anu but is also identified with the northwest Semitic goddess ' Anat of essentially the same name .
Anu is the mother of Ishtar in the Gilgamesh story .
Antu appears in Akkadian texts mostly as a rather colorless consort of Anu , the mother of Ishtar in the Gilgamesh story , but is also identified with the northwest Semitic goddess ' Anat of essentially the same name .