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Key facts
- Major cult center
- Mecca
- Abode
- Al-Mushallal
- Symbols
- Waning moon, cup of death
- Region
- Arabia
- Siblings
- Al-Lat , Al-‘Uzzá
- Consort
- Hubal
- Greek
- Ananke
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Manāt (Arabic: مناة, pronounced [maˈnaːh] (pausa) or [maˈnaːt], Old Arabic: [manaˈwat]; 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, Al-Lat and Al-‘Uzzá, and among them, she was the original and the oldest.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manāt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.