Key facts
- Deity.type
- Canaanite
- Deity.name
- Arsu
- Deity.god_of
- God of the evening star
- Deity.image
- Ag-obj-6832-001-pub-large.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Relief showing Arsu from Temple of Adonis, Dura-Europos
- Deity.planet
- Mercury, Venus (as the Evening Star)
- Deity.siblings
- Azizos
- Deity.equivalent1
- Ruda
- Deity.equivalent1_type
- Arabia
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- worshipped by
- Canaanite religion
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- Arsu
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Arsu was a god worshipped in Palmyra, Syria.
A deity known from Syrian and northern Arabian lands, being represented as either male or female (most often). Arsu was connected with the evening star.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arsu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.