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List of Gods : "Dusara" - 2 records

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God name "Dusara"	Semitic	Local god åśśociated with vegetation and fertility survived until about 500 BCE. Semitic
God name "Dusara (the one' of s'ara)"	Western Semitic / Nabataean	Local tutelary god. Associated with vegetation and fertility in the Hauran region from about 312 BC until circa AD 500. Regarded as a supreme deity, comparable to BAAL S AMIN, who never achieved Dus ara's popularity among the nomadic Nabataeans, for whom farming was precarious. He was represented by a black obelisk at Petra. Sacred animals are the eagle and panther. Attributes include a vine stem. In Hellenic times he was the subject of inscriptions at Delos and Miletus and he was equated with DIONYSOS. Also Dus ares; Dus-S ara....

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