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List of Gods : "Nabataean" - 7 records

Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼
God name
"ALLAH"
Nabataean / Arabic The creator god of Islam. Perceived in preIslamic times as the creator of the earth and water. Named by the prophet Muhammad as the one true god and given a hundred names or epithets in the Qur'an, ninety-nine of which are known to mankind and accounted on the rosary beads; the final name remains a mystery. No representation of Allah is made in art....
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....
God name
"Ilaalge"
Western Semitic / Nabataean Local god. Worshiped at Al-Ge [el-Gi in Wadi Musa, in the Arabian desert]....
Goddess name
"Manawat"
Western Semitic / Nabataean Goddess of destiny. Mentioned in a large number of inscriptions....
God name
"Qawm"
Arabic The Nabataean god of war and the night, and guardian of caravans.
God name
"Sai' Al Qaum (the good and beautiful god who does not drink wine)"
Western Semitic / Nabataean Local guardian deity. Known from two inscriptions at Palmyra which suggest him to be a protector of caravans. Attributes include a helmet. He may have developed from an Egyptian god Sai (Greek: Psais)....
God name
"Sai' Al Quan"
Nabataean / W Semitic A local guardian God is believed to be the protector of caravans