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Deities formed a part of the polytheistic religious beliefs in pre-Islamic Arabia, with many of the deities' names known. [1] Up until about the time between the fourth century AD and the emergence of Islam, polytheism was the dominant form of religion in Arabia. Deities represented the forces of nature, love, death, and so on, and were ...
Camels were among the sacrificial animals in pre-Islamic Arabia. [82] The most common offerings were animals, crops, food, liquids, inscribed metal plaques or stone tablets, aromatics, edifices and manufactured objects. [83] Camel-herding Arabs would devote some of their beasts to certain deities.
al-Lat (Arabic: اللات, romanized: al-Lāt, pronounced), also spelled Allat, Allatu, and Alilat, is a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess, at one time worshipped under various associations throughout the entire Arabian Peninsula, including Mecca, where she was worshipped alongside Al-Uzza and Manat as one of the daughters of Allah.
This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. African mythology (sub-Saharan) ... Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
She is mentioned in Qur'an 53:19 as being one of the goddesses who people worshipped. Relief from Hatra of the Arabian goddess Al-Lat, likely flanked by goddesses Manat, and al-Uzza. Iraq Museum "Eye" imagery in many forms is associated with the goddess. Al-ʻUzzā, like Hubal, was called upon for protection by the pre-Islamic Quraysh.
Manāt (Arabic: مناة Arabic pronunciation: pausa, or Old Arabic manawat; also transliterated as manāh) was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 6/7th century.
It is believed that she and Al-Uzza were once a single deity, which bifurcated in the pre-Islamic Meccan tradition. [2] Pre-Islamic Arabs believed that the goddess Al-lāt--along with Al-‘Uzzá, and Manāt--was the daughter of Allah, though Nabataean inscriptions describe her as Allah's wife, instead.
This is a list of spiritual entities in Islam. Islamic traditions and mythologies branching of from the Quran state more precisely, about the nature of different spiritual or supernatural creatures.