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al-Lat (Arabic: اللات, romanized: al-Lāt, pronounced), also spelled Allat, Allatu, and Alilat, is a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess, at one time worshipped under various associations throughout the entire Arabian Peninsula, including Mecca, where she was worshipped alongside Al-Uzza and Manat as one of the daughters of Allah.
Each of the three goddesses had a separate shrine near Mecca. The most prominent Arabian shrine of al-ʻUzzā was at a place called Nakhlah near Qudayd, east of Mecca toward aṭ-Ṭā’if; three trees were sacred to her there (according to a narration through al-'Anazi Abū-‘Alī in the Kitāb al-Aṣnām.)
The name Abd al-Uzza derives from one of the three chief goddesses of Arabian religion in pre-Islamic times, al-Uzza. [2] The three were considered to be daughters of Allah and were very close in symbolism and appearance to Hindu and Buddhist goddesses. [citation needed]
The three chief goddesses of Meccan religion were al-Lat, Al-‘Uzzá, and Manāt, who were called the daughters of Allah. [2] [31] [32] [35] Egerton Sykes meanwhile states that Al-lāt was the female counterpart of Allah while Uzza was a name given by Banu Ghatafan to the planet Venus. [126]
But aside from being the most ancient of the three chief goddesses of Mecca, [7] she was also very possibly among the most ancient of the Semitic pantheon as well. [8] [9] Her now-lost major shrine was between Mecca and Medina on the coasts of the Red Sea, [10] likely in al-Mushallal where an idol of her was erected. [11]
The god Dushara is sometimes said to be the husband of Allat and in other instances he is the son of Allat. Another example would be Allat, Al-'Uzza and Manat, these three deities are said to be the daughters of the high god Allah. In some regions of the Nabataean kingdom, both Allat and Al-'Uzza are said to be the same goddess. [2]
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