Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Abgal" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | (1) Desert god. Known from the Palmyrian desert regions as a tutelary god of Bedouins and camel drivers.(2) Minor attendant spirits. Mesopotamian (Sumerian). Associated with ENKI and residing in the Abzu or primeval water.... |
"Adha" | Arab | (the slit-eared). The swiftest of Mahomet's camels. |
God name "Singala N" | Arabic | , Local god Arabic |
God name "Marnas N" | Arabic | , Local tutelary god Arabic |
God name "Malakbel N" | Arabic | , vegetation god Arabic |
God name "Elagabalus" | Arab | A Syro-Phanician Sun-god, represented under the form of a huge conical stone. |
Spirit name "Jack A-Lantern" | Arabian | A bog or marsh spirit who delights to mislead. These Arabian spirits were formed of "smokeless fire." |
"Albadara" | Arab | A bone which the Arabs say defies destruction, and which; at the resurrection, will be the germ of the new body. The Jews called it Luz and the "Os sacrum" refers probably to the same superstition. |
Angel name "Moakkibat" | Arabic | A clåśś of angels. Two angels of this clåśś attend every child of Adam from the cradle to the grave. At Sunset they fly up with the record of the deeds done since Sunrise. Every good deed is entered ten times by the recording angel on the credit or right side of his ledger, but when an evil deed is reported the angel waits seven hours, "if haply in that time the evil-doer may repent." The Koran. |
Deities name "Mandah/ Mundih" | Arabic | A collective name of gods, guardian deities that took care of irrigation |
Deity name "Yagute" | Arabian | A deity depicted in the form of a lion. Arabian |
Deity name "Datin" | Arabic | A deity worshipped in pre-Islamic northern Arabia. Datin was an oracular deity also åśśociated with oaths and justice. Arabic |
"Aboulomri" | Arab | A fabulous bird of the vulture sort which lives 1,000 years. Called by the Persians Kerkes, and by the Turks Ak-Baba. Mohammedan mythology |
Monster name "Opinicus" | Arabic | A fabulous monster, composed of dragon, camel, and lion, used in heraldry. It forms the crest of the Barber Surgeons of London. |
"Lat" | Arabic | A female idol made of stone, and said to be inspired with life; the chief object of adoration by the Arabs before their conversion. |
God name "Theandros" | N Arabia | A god known only from Greek & Roman inscriptions |
God name "Anbay" | S Arabia | A god of justice & an oracular source |
God name "Haubas/ Hobas" | SArabia | A god that may be a particular form of Attar |