According to the Quran, Nasr (Arabic: نسر) was a pre-Islamic Arabian deity at the time of the Noah: "وقالوا لا تذرن آلهتكم ولا تذرن ودا ولا سواعا ولا يغوث...

Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. A rarer form, 'ila, represents...

The Jemdet Nasr Period (also Jemdat Nasr period) is an archaeological culture in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). It is generally dated from 3100...

(Arabic "He Helps" يَغُوثَ) or Jageth, if translated to English, was a deity or idol referred to in the Quran (71:23) as a god of the era of the Islamic...

Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity of weather and war in the ancient Levant, the national god of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, and the head of the...

Akkadian and Sumerian, they were already used interchangeably to refer to one deity in the Early Dynastic period. They were sometimes combined into the double...

Palmyra is an example, attested as a messenger of Bel but existing as a deity separate to Bel/Marduk. Similarly, Zeus Belus mentioned by Sanchuniathon...

dome, existed an underworld and a freshwater ocean called the Abzu. The deity of the dome-shaped firmament was named An; that of the earth was named Ki...

gods, with every tribe and kingdom having their particular protective deities. However, there were also gods common for all Arabs, and the trinity of...

El (compare the Biblical "sons of God"), the creator deity called El, fathered the other deities. In the Greek sources he was married to Beruth (Beirut...

ancient records of Aram and Arabia. Gad is also mentioned in the Bible as a deity in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 65:11 – some translations simply call him...

der ägyptischen Sprache. Akademie Verlag, p. 30 Nasr (2022), pp. 294-296. Nasr (2022), pp.300-302. Nasr (2022), pp. 307-310. Priskin, Gyula/Brandy, Bernadette...

Ruḍāʾ is a deity that was of paramount importance in the Arab pantheon of gods worshipped by the North Arabian tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia. He is first...

(71:23) as a deity of the time of the Prophet Noah. And they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsake Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr. (Qur'an...

huwa (God, there is no deity but Him) much more often. It appears in the shorter form lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa (There is no deity but Him) in many places...

Nuha is a deity that was worshipped among the Northern Arabian tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia. Associated with the sun, she formed part of a trinity of...

of the goddess Al-Lat, and that he assembled in the heavens with other deities. He is called "Dushara from Petra" in one inscription. Dushara was expected...

pre-Islamic Arabian deity and given name that means "elevated". Personal names incorporating the name Manaf such as "Abd Manaf" show that the deity was widespread...

among the pre-Islamic Arabs, Allah was a supreme deity and was worshipped alongside lesser deities in a pantheon. Many Jews, Christians, and early Muslims...

marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. ʿAṯtar is a deity whose role, name, and even gender varied across ancient Semitic religion...

omnipresence is most often used in a religious context as an attribute of a deity or supreme being, while the term ubiquity is generally used to describe...

Manaf Manāt Nasr Nuha Quzah Rahmanan Ruda Sa'd Shams, Samas Syn Suwa' Ta'lab Theandrios al-‘Uzzá Wadd Ya'uq Yaghūth Yatha Arabian deities of other Semitic...

1955), p. 46 (Nasr speaking) Nasr, Mawdudi and Islamic Revivalism 1996, p. 88 Nasr, Mawdudi and Islamic Revivalism 1996, p. 93 Nasr, Mawdudi and Islamic...

𐤀𐤃𐤍; Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who was also the first and primary...

Tabatabaei (19981), pp. 23 and 24 Momen (1985), p. 176 Nasr, Dabashi & Nasr 1988, p. 197 Nasr, Dabashi & Nasr 1988, p. 115 Motahari 1985 Abdullah, W. S. W. (2000)...

sun-god Shamash, with the two deities alternating in the control of nature, tends to imbue him with some traits of a solar deity. According to Alberto Green...

sukkal (attendant) is the goddess Ninshubur, later conflated with the male deities Ilabrat and Papsukkal. Inanna was worshipped in Sumer as early as the Uruk...

"He of the Heavenly", was a pre-Islamic deity that was worshipped in South Arabia. He was a kind of sky deity who resided in the heavens. He was also...

Invocation is the act of calling upon a deity, spirit, or supernatural force, typically through prayer, ritual, or spoken formula, to seek guidance, assistance...

romanized: Kamōš; Biblical Hebrew: כְּמוֹשׁ, romanized: Kəmōš) is a Canaanite deity worshipped by Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples who occupied the region known...