Manat, also transliterated Manah, was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess of fate, fortune, time and destiny, her name derived from Arabic roots meaning to mete out or determine; she was also thought to oversee graves and protect burial sites. She was counted among Mecca's three chief goddesses alongside her sisters Al-Lat and Al-Uzza, both already recorded on this atlas, and was considered the oldest of the three, worshipped especially by the Banu Aus and Banu Khazraj with a major shrine between Mecca and Medina. The Nabataeans knew her as Manotu, and her name appears beside Dushara's in curse formulas within tomb inscriptions at Hegra.
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