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Abgal (god)

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583: 481:) as armed and mounted men in statuary in a pair together was common across the desert regions of Syria/Mesopotamia – and together these representations may have represented divine protection. 410:
with imagery of Abgal and Ashar, and earlier inscriptions at Kirbet-Semrin dates the active 'worship' of this jinn to between 154 and 270 AD – references to the deity appear in the
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region. Representations of him are of a youth with long hair and a moustache, wearing local garb, and holding a
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This article is about Arabian god Abgal. For the Sumerian demi-gods known as Abgal (Akkadian Apkallu), see
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he was a god of nomads, and usually mentioned in association with nomadic gods such as
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Index

myth series
Religions of the ancient Near East
Pre-Islamic Arabian deities
'Amm
A'ra
Abgal
Al-Lat
Al-Qaum
Almaqah
Anbay
ʿAṯtar
Basamum
Dhu l-Khalasa
Dushara
Haukim
Hubal
Isāf and Nā'ila
Manaf
Manāt
Nasr
Nuha
Quzah
Ruda
Sa'd
Shams, Samas
Syn
Suwa'
Ta'lab
Theandrios
al-‘Uzzá

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