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- 17:23, 24 May 2024 Animals in Arabian and Near Eastern Religion and Art (hist | edit) [23,669 bytes] WahbAllat (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Horse== Horses were renowned for their strength and capabilities in travel, hunting and warfare. Cavalry commanders in Nabataea even held high positions in society. Horses were tamed in North Arabia during the mid-first millennium BC at the latest. Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330–395) tells us that the Saracens ranged “widely with the help of swift horses and slender camels in times of peace or of disorder” which shows that horses were a normal mount for both the nom...")
- 21:24, 22 April 2024 Baʿal Samay (hist | edit) [2,591 bytes] WahbAllat (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Baʿal Samay, also known Baalshamin and as Ba'al Šamem, is a Northwest Semitic god. The name Baʿal Samay is applied to various divinities at different periods in time, but most often to Hadad, also known simply as Baʿal. Baʿal Samay was one of the two supreme gods and the sky god of Palmyra in ancient Syria. The worship of Baʿal Samay, under various names, was widespread in the ancient Middle East, particularly in Canaan, Phoenicia, and Syria1. As a sky god, Baalsh...")