#canannite

William Albright describes the Canaanite deity Anath's massacre in the following gory scene:

The blood was so deep that she waded in it up to her knees--nay, up to her neck. Under her feet were human heads. Above her human hands flew like locusts. In her sensuous delight, she decorated herself with suspended heads while she attached hands to her girdle. Her joy at the butchery is described in even more sadistic language: "Her liver swelled with laughter, her heart was full of joy, the liver of Anath (was full of) exultation." Afterwards, Anath "was satisfied" and washed her hands in human gore before proceeding to other occupations.

Anath, the patroness of both sex and war, reminds us of the bloodthirsty goddess Kali of Hinduism, who drank her victims' blood and sat surrounded by corpses; she is commonly depicted with a garland of skulls around her neck.