Atarsamain
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| Pre-Islamic Arabian deities |
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Atarsamain (also spelled Attar-shamayin, Attarshamayin,Attar.
According to Dierk Lange, Atarsamain was the main deity in a trinity of gods worshipped by what he calls the Yumu'il Confederation, which he describes as a northern Arab tribal confederation of
Atarsamain is twice mentioned in the annals of
Arabs".[1]
References
- ^ a b Retso, Jan. The Arabs in Antiquity: Their history from the Assyrians to the Umayyads. Routledge, 2013, p. 168
- ^ Ahmad al-Jallad, "On the origins of the god Ruḍ aw and some remarks on the pre-Islamic North Arabian pantheon," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2021)
- ^ Hoyland, 2001, p. 68.
- ^ a b c d Lange, 2004, pp. 268–269.
Bibliography
- Hoyland, Robert G. (2001), Arabia and the Arabs: from the Bronze Age to the coming of Islam (Illustrated, reprint ed.), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-19535-5
- Lange, Dierk (2004), Ancient kingdoms of West Africa: African-centred and Canaanite-Israelite perspectives : a collection of published and unpublished studies in English and French, J.H.Röll Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89754-115-3
- Retsö, Jan (2003), The Arabs in antiquity: their history from the Assyrians to the Umayyads (Illustrated ed.), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-7007-1679-1
Further reading
- Encyclopedia of Gods, Michael Jordan, Kyle Cathie Limited, 2002