Abraha really went to Macca to conquest..
Outside of later Islamic tradition, there is no mention of Abraha's
expedition. Historical-critical scholars see the story as a later
Islamic tradition designed to explain the "Men of the Elephant" in
Qur'an 105:1-5.[13] However, recent findings of Himyaritic inscriptions
describe an hitherto unknown expedition of Abraha, which subsequently
led Gajda et al to identify this expedition as the failed conquest of
Mecca.[14]
Al-Lat ( Arabic : اللات , romanized : Al-Lāt , pronounced [alːaːt] ), also spelled Allat , Allatu and Alilat , is a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped under various associations throughout the entire peninsula, including Mecca where she was worshipped alongside Manat and al-'Uzza . The word Allat or Elat has been used to refer to various goddesses in the ancient Near East , including the goddess Asherah-Athirat . Al-Lat was attested in south Arabian inscriptions as Lat and Latan , but she had more prominence in north Arabia and the Hejaz , and her cult reached as far as Syria . [3] The writers of the Safaitic script frequently invoked al-Lat in their inscriptions. She was also worshipped by the Nabataeans and she was associated with al-'Uzza . The presence of her cult was attested in both Palmyra and Hatra . Under Greco-Roman influence, her iconography began to show the attributes of Athena , the Greek goddess of war, as well as her Roman equivalent Min...
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