Anat in the "Baal" myth
My jaw dropped as I was reading the Ugaritic myth Baal on the bus, and came to the part where Anat, not satisfied with the real battle she's just gleefully engaged in, turns her own furniture into soldiers so she can keep fighting. After which she literally washes her hands in blood, before washing them in water. This is the event represented by artist Thalia Took's image of Anat. It's an even more bloodthirsty portrayal of a war goddess than anything I've read of Inanna/Ishtar.
Kapelrud says of Anat: "She is the demanding goddess of battle, never satisfied, always with a never-resting wish to go on, which is the typical mark of passion, until it ends up burning up itself."
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Coogan, Michael David. Stories from Ancient Canaan. Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1978.
Kapelrud, Arvid S. The Violent Goddess: Anat in the Ras Shamra Texts. Universitets-forlaget, Oslo, 1969.
Kapelrud says of Anat: "She is the demanding goddess of battle, never satisfied, always with a never-resting wish to go on, which is the typical mark of passion, until it ends up burning up itself."
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Coogan, Michael David. Stories from Ancient Canaan. Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1978.
Kapelrud, Arvid S. The Violent Goddess: Anat in the Ras Shamra Texts. Universitets-forlaget, Oslo, 1969.