scar-face!!!!
Abraha was reported to have led his army of 100,000 men with hundreds of
elephants to successfully crush all resistance of the Yemeni army and
then, following the suicide of Dhu Nuwas, seized power and established
himself at Sana‘a.
He aroused the wrath of Kaléb, however, by withholding tribute who then
sent his general 'Ariat to take over the governorship of Yemen. 'Abraha
rid himself of the latter by a subterfuge in a duel resulting in 'Ariat
being killed and 'Abraha suffering the injury which earned him the
sobriquet of al-Asräm, "scar-face."[6]
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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