allat

Updated: May 7, 2025

And the early gods of Arabia are a motley company; it is only in their relations to their worshippers and in the order of the worship paid them that they have some uniformity. The greatest and oldest deity of the Arabs is Allat or Alilat, "the Lady." Like the female deity found in all primitive Semitic religions, she is a stately and commanding lady.

Allan Menzies - History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

The poem in which the narrative is preserved gives a description of the "house of darkness, where they behold no light," and then tells how, at the orders of Ninkigal or Allat, queen of Hades, Istar is deprived, successively, in spite of her remonstrances, of all her ornaments, and how the plague-demon Namtar is bidden to strike her with all manner of diseases.

Allan Menzies - History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

That the Syro-Arabian Allat resembles Ishtar rather than Allatu, points again to the original identity of the two goddesses. See p. 546 seq. See below, p. 594, note 1, and Jensen's Kosmologie, pp. 145, 480, 483, 487. Sunday School Times, 1897, p. 139. See p. 574. See Frazer, The Golden Bough, i. 240 seq. and 274, 275. See p. 574. See p. 417.

Morris Jastrow - The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria