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List of Gods : "Palmyra" - 16 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Deity name "Aglibol"	Roman / Syria / Greek / Palmaryia	A lunar deity in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. His name means "Calf of Bel" ("Calf of the Lord"). He is depicted with a Lunar disk decorating his head, and sometimes his shoulders. Roman / Syria / Greek / Palmaryia
God name "Aglibol"	Pre - Islamic northern Arabian	moon god. Known from Palmyra and linked with the Sun god Yarhibol. The cult continued into Hellenic times and was later extended to Rome. Attributes include a sickle moon....
Goddess name "Allat (goddess)"	Pre - Islamic northern / central Arabian	Astral and tutelary goddess. One of the three daughters of ALLAH. At Palmyra she was regularly invoked as a domestic guardian either as Allat or ASTARTE with whom she is closely linked. At Ta'if she was symbolized in the form of a white granite stone. In Hellenic times she became syncretized with ATHENA or, according to Herodotus who called her Alilat, with APHRODITE....
God name "Arsu"	Arabic	The Palmyran god of the evening star and usually portrayed as riding a camel with his twin brother Azizos. Arabic
God name "Arsu"	Pre - Islamic northern Arabian	Astraltutelary god. Locally worshiped at Palmyra where he personifies the evening star, in company with his brother AZIZOS who is the morning star. He equates with Ruda elsewhere in northern Arabia. Associated in Palmyra with horses or camels....
God name "Asar"	Arabian	A horse-god revered in ancient Palmyra, possibly of Arabian origin.

God name "Asar"	Pre - Islamic northern Arabian	Equestrian god. Known only from inscriptions at Palmyra....
Goddess name "Atars'amain (morning star of heaven)"	Pre - Islamic northern / central Arabian	Astral deity of uncertain gender. Worshiped particularly by the Isamme tribe, but revered widely among other Arabs. Known from circa 800 BC and identified in letters of the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. May be synonymous with the Arab goddess ALLAT whose cult was centered on Palmyra....
God name "Azizos"	Levant	Azizos or Aziz, the Palmyran god of the morning star. He is usually portrayed as riding a camel with his twin brother Arsu. Levant
God name "Azizos"	Pre - Islamic northern Arabian	Astral tutelary god. Locally worshiped at Palmyra, where he personifies the morning star, in company with his brother ARSU, who is the evening star. Associated with horses or camels. He was also venerated separately in Syria as god of the morning star, in company with the astral god Monimos....
God name "Bel"	Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian	Generic title meaning lord. The Babylonian god MARDUK was often addressed as Bel, and the name occurs in the Vetus Testamentum. The New Year festival of akitu in Babylon included a ceremony of leading Bel by the hand. The name also appears at Palmyra as the tutelary creator god whose attributes include lightning and an eagle....
God name "Malak-bel"	Palmyra	Of course other gods called "Lord" could be and sometimes were identified totally or in part with Bel Marduk. The god Malak-bel of Palmyra is an example, though in the later period from which most of our information comes he seems to have become very much a Sun god which Marduk was not.
God name "Malakbel"	Pre - Islamic northern Arabian	vegetation god. Mentioned as the brother of AGLIBOL on an inscription at Palmyra dated to AD 132....
God name "Ruda"	Pre - Islamic northern Arabian	Tutelary god. An androgynous being symbolized by the evening star. Also ARSU (Palmyra)....
God name "Sadrapa"	Western Semitic / Syrian / / Pontic	God of healing. He is depicted on reliefs as a youth holding a scorpion or snake. Known originally from Palmyra, his popularity spread to Carthage and, during the Hellenic period, to the Greek coast. Also Satrapis (Greek)....
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)....