Recent from talks
Nasr (deity)
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Nasr (deity)
According to the Quran, Nasr (Arabic: نسر) was a pre-Islamic Arabian deity at the time of the Noah:
"وقالوا لا تذرن آلهتكم ولا تذرن ودا ولا سواعا ولا يغوث ويعوق ونسرا
And they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsake Wadd, nor Suwāʿ, nor Yaghūth and Yaʿūq and Nasr."[Quran 71:23]
Hisham ibn Al-Kalbi's Book of Idols describes a temple to Nasr at Balkha, an otherwise unknown location.
Reliefs depicting vultures (nasr) have been found in Himyar, including at Maṣna'at Māriya and Haddat Gulays, and Nasr appears in theophoric names. Some sources attribute the deity to "the dhū-l-Khila tribe of Himyar". Himyaritic inscriptions were thought to describe "the vulture of the east" and "the vulture of the west", which Augustus Henry Keane interpreted as solstitial worship; however these are now thought to read "eastward" and "westward" with n-s-r as a preposition. J. Spencer Trimingham believed Nasr was "a symbol of the sun".
Nasr has been identified by some scholars with Maren-Shamash, who is often flanked by vultures in depictions at Hatra. Coins depicting vultures were also found at Hatra.
Many scholars suggest that Nasr should be identified with Nishra (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: נשרא, romanized: nishra, lit. 'vulture'), an idol mentioned by Aramaic texts.
An "Arabian" vulture-god is mentioned by the Babylonian Talmud and the Doctrine of Addai. This "Arabia" may be Arbayistan. The Talmud, Avodah Zarah 11b, reads:
Ḥanan b. Ḥisda says that Abba b. Aybo says, and some say it was Ḥanan b. Rava who said that Abba b. Aybo says, "There are five permanent idolatrous temples: the temple of Bel in Babylon, the temple of Nebo in Borsippa, the temple of Atargatis in Manbij, the temple of Serapis in Ashkelon, and the temple of Nishra in Arabia".
Hub AI
Nasr (deity) AI simulator
(@Nasr (deity)_simulator)
Nasr (deity)
According to the Quran, Nasr (Arabic: نسر) was a pre-Islamic Arabian deity at the time of the Noah:
"وقالوا لا تذرن آلهتكم ولا تذرن ودا ولا سواعا ولا يغوث ويعوق ونسرا
And they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsake Wadd, nor Suwāʿ, nor Yaghūth and Yaʿūq and Nasr."[Quran 71:23]
Hisham ibn Al-Kalbi's Book of Idols describes a temple to Nasr at Balkha, an otherwise unknown location.
Reliefs depicting vultures (nasr) have been found in Himyar, including at Maṣna'at Māriya and Haddat Gulays, and Nasr appears in theophoric names. Some sources attribute the deity to "the dhū-l-Khila tribe of Himyar". Himyaritic inscriptions were thought to describe "the vulture of the east" and "the vulture of the west", which Augustus Henry Keane interpreted as solstitial worship; however these are now thought to read "eastward" and "westward" with n-s-r as a preposition. J. Spencer Trimingham believed Nasr was "a symbol of the sun".
Nasr has been identified by some scholars with Maren-Shamash, who is often flanked by vultures in depictions at Hatra. Coins depicting vultures were also found at Hatra.
Many scholars suggest that Nasr should be identified with Nishra (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: נשרא, romanized: nishra, lit. 'vulture'), an idol mentioned by Aramaic texts.
An "Arabian" vulture-god is mentioned by the Babylonian Talmud and the Doctrine of Addai. This "Arabia" may be Arbayistan. The Talmud, Avodah Zarah 11b, reads:
Ḥanan b. Ḥisda says that Abba b. Aybo says, and some say it was Ḥanan b. Rava who said that Abba b. Aybo says, "There are five permanent idolatrous temples: the temple of Bel in Babylon, the temple of Nebo in Borsippa, the temple of Atargatis in Manbij, the temple of Serapis in Ashkelon, and the temple of Nishra in Arabia".