Chaabou

According to the early Christian bishop

Dusares. However, a few modern scholars claim without proof that Epiphanius may have mistaken the word kaʿbu ("cube", etymologically identical to the name of the Kaaba), referring to the stone blocks used by the Nabateans to represent Dusares and possibly other deities, for the proper name of a goddess.^[2]^[3] His report that Chaabou was a virgin was likely influenced by his desire to find a parallel to the Christian belief in the virgin birth of Jesus, and by the similarity of the words ka'bah and ka'ibah ("virgin") in Arabic, the native tongue of the Nabataeans.^[3]^[4]

References

^ W. Robertson Smith (1907). Lectures on the Religion of the Semites. London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 68, footnote 3.
^ Stephen Herbert Langdon (1964) [first published 1931]. Semitic Mythology. The Mythology of All Races. Vol. 5. New York: Cooper Square Publishers. p. 16.
^ ^a ^b Eugene D. Stockton (1971). "Petra revisited: a review of a Semitic cult complex" (PDF). Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology. 1 (4): 57.
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[Smith1907-1] W. Robertson Smith (1907). Lectures on the Religion of the Semites. London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 68, footnote 3.

[Langdon1931-2] Stephen Herbert Langdon (1964) [first published 1931]. Semitic Mythology. The Mythology of All Races. Vol. 5. New York: Cooper Square Publishers. p. 16.

[Stockton1971-3] Eugene D. Stockton (1971). "Petra revisited: a review of a Semitic cult complex" (PDF). Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology. 1 (4): 57.

[Woodard2008-4] ISBN 978-1-139-46934-0
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