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Sabaean inscription addressed to the moon-god Almaqah, mentioning five South Arabian gods, two reigning sovereigns and two governors, 7th century BCE. A Griffon from the royal palace at Shabwa, Hadhramaut. Barran Temple or the throne of the Queen of Sheba.
Dhul Khalasa is a god worshipped by the Bajila and the Khath'am tribes, and was reportedly worshipped as a "god of redemption". His temple became known as the Kaaba of Yemen. Attested: Dhu Samawi: Dhu Samawi, literally "the Heavenly One", is a god who probably originated from northern Arabia, but also found worship in south Arabia.
Almaqah is considered a moon god, but Garbini and Pirenne have shown that the bull's head and the vine motif associated with him may have solar and dionysiac attributes. He was therefore a priest of Ra, the male counterpart of the sun goddess Shamash / Ishtar / Isis , who was also venerated in Saba, but as a tutelary goddess of the royal ...
Sheba, [a] or Saba, [b] was an ancient South Arabian kingdom in modern-day Yemen [3] whose inhabitants were known as the Sabaeans [c] or the tribe of Sabaʾ which, for much of the 1st millennium BCE, were indissociable from the kingdom itself. [4]
Little is known about ancient Yemen and how exactly it transitioned from nascent Bronze Age civilizations to more trade-focused caravan kingdoms. Sabaean gravestone of a woman holding a stylized sheaf of wheat, a symbol of fertility in ancient Yemen. The Sabaean Kingdom came into existence from at least the 11th century BC. [4]
Alabaster votive figurines from Yemen, now in the National Museum of Oriental Art, Rome Gilded statue of the Canaanite creator god El, BC. 1400–1200 El-Megiddo.El is considered the cognate of the word Ilah and continues to appear in compound names such as Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Ishmael, etc.
The Temple of Awwam (Arabic: معبد أوام, Sabaean: 𐩱𐩥𐩣), commonly known as Mahram Bilqis (Arabic: محرم بلقيس, romanized: Mḥrm blqīs, lit. 'Sanctuary of the Queen of Sheba') by locals, [2] was the main Sabaean temple dedicated to their national god, Almaqah (frequently called "Lord of ʾAwwām" [3]), and it is also the largest known temple complex in South Arabia, [2 ...
Nakrah (Sabaean: NKRḤ [M], Arabic: نكرح, romanized: Nakraḥ and Nikraḥum) was an ancient South Arabian god of protection and salvation worshiped in the Minaean Kingdom. [1] The place of worship of the deity is located in today's Jawf in northern Yemen. It is located near the village Ma'in, the ancient Qarnawu. Around his sanctuary was ...