 arabian mythology is the set of ancient, pre-islamic beliefs held by the arab people. prior to islam, the kaaba of mecca was covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, djinn, demigods, or simply tribal gods and other assorted deities which represented the polytheistic culture of pre-islamic arabia. among those deities were: allah which, for the meccans, was a reference to a creator god who had three goddesses as daughters; and hubal. it has been inferred from this plurality that this mythology flourished in an exceptionally broad context. many of the physical descriptions of the pre-islamic gods are traced to idols, especially near the kaaba, which is believed to have contained up to 360 of them. ==gods== ===allah and associated goddesses=== in pre-islamic arabia, allah was used by meccans as a reference to a creator god, possibly a supreme deity.see qur'an ; ; ; ) allah was considered the creator of the world and the giver of rain, but in contrast to islam, allah was not considered the sole divinity. the notion of the term may have been vague in the meccan religion.l. gardet, allah, encyclopaedia of islam allah was associated with companions, whom pre-islamic arabs considered as subordinate deities. meccans held that a kind of kinship existed between allah and the jinn.see qur'an ) allah was thought to have had sonssee qur'an () and the local deities , manÄt and al-lÄt were his daughters.see qur'an (; ; ) the meccans possibly associated angels with allah.see qur'an () allah was invoked in times of distress.gerhard bÃ¶wering, god and his attributes, encyclopedia of the qur'ansee qur'an ; ; ; ) muhammad's father's name was  meaning "the slave of allÄh". the three daughters of allah and chief goddesses of meccan arabian mythology were al-lÄt, al-âuzzÃ¡, and manÄt. each is associated with certain domains and had shrines w
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