This is why the last prophet came from among the arabs. The dont have much paganist myths that may delude the religion. Think about greeks, this would be terrible with soo many mythology, all mixed with the new religion.
According to F.E. Peters,
"one of the characteristics of Arab paganism as it has come down to us
is the absence of a mythology, narratives that might serve to explain
the origin or history of the gods."[47]
Many of the deities have epithets, but are lacking myths or narratives
to decode the epithets, making them generally uninformative.[48]
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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