Introduction
Kishar is the goddess personifying the horizon of the earth, daughter of Lahmu and Lahamu and consort of her brother Anshar, together producing Anu.
Family
Mother of the Horizon
Kishar's name mirrors and complements Anshar's, together forming a cosmological pair representing the totality of sky and earth as bounded, ordered realms — a conceptual step in the Enuma Elish's genealogy from the formless waters of Apsu and Tiamat toward the fully differentiated, ordered cosmos ruled eventually by Marduk.
Mesopotamian religion spans Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian sources composed and recopied across nearly three thousand years, so names, genealogies, and even a deity's role often shift between traditions (Sumerian An/Enki/Inanna alongside their Akkadian/Babylonian forms Anu/Ea/Ishtar); the account above follows the most widely attested version, usually as consolidated in the Babylonian Enuma Elish or the standard Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh.