Manāt | |
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Goddess of fate, fortune, time, death, and destiny | |
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Major cult center | Mecca |
Abode | Al-Mushallal |
Symbols | Waning moon, cup of death |
Region | Arabia |
Genealogy | |
Siblings | Al-Lat, Al-‘Uzzá |
Consort | Hubal |
Equivalents | |
Greek equivalent | Ananke |
Part of the myth series on Religions of the ancient Near East |
Pre-Islamic Arabian deities |
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Arabian deities of other Semitic origins |
Manāt (Arabic: مناة Arabic pronunciation: [maˈnaːh] pausa, [maˈnaːt] or Old Arabic manawat; also transliterated as manāh) was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 6/7th century. She was among Mecca's three chief goddesses, alongside her sisters, Allat and Al-‘Uzzá,[1] and among them, she was the original and the oldest.[2]