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This article is about the Arabian reflection of Aphrodite Urania. For the original Arab goddess who is also called Allāt, see ʾAṯiratu.

Allāt (anglicised as al-Lat, also known as Alilat, Arsay, Allat[u][m], Elat[h], Antu, Lat[an] and Goddess, Arabic: اللات literallly: the Goddess or أثيرة literally: "the Most Favoured") is a chief goddess in Arabo-Canaanite mythology and the wife of ʻAmm, a daughter of Allah, and the mother of Dushara.

She is the strongest goddess in the trinity and the main goddess in the Arabian pantheon.

Mythology[]

Pre-Hellenism[]

In the Arabian pre-Hellenistic Allāt was a goddess that had not parents or siblings but had a son call Dushara.

Hellenism[]

In Hellenistic times Allāt have like her parends to Allah and an unnamed sea goddess, and her siblings were al-'Uzza and Manat, and become into a triple a goddess member of a triad. in this triad Allāt was the most important and strongest of the triad.

Equivalents[]

By her role as a queen of heaven, Allāt was equated with the semetic ʾAṯiratu and the mesopotamian Antu, in Ugarit she was named Arsay and was a daughter of Baal, in Ugaric she was a goddess of underworld rather thant a sky deity, so Arsay can be considere an equivalent of Ereshkigal.

Iconography[]

The lion is the symbol of Allāt.

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