Al-Lat

Al-Lat, also spelled Allat, was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped across the Arabian Peninsula, including at Mecca alongside Al-Uzza and Manat, and was regarded as the feminine counterpart, consort, or daughter of Allah. Her cult held particular prominence in north Arabia and the Hejaz and reached into Syria; writers of the Safaitic script frequently invoked her in their inscriptions, and her worship is attested at Palmyra and Hatra. The Nabataeans actively worshipped Al-Lat, equating her with the Greek goddess Athena and the Roman goddess Minerva and regarding her as mother of the deities, her family relation to Dushara varying between consort and mother; Nabataean inscriptions call both her and Al-Uzza, already recorded on this atlas, the brides of Dushara. Her worship ended in the seventh century when her temple at Ta'if was destroyed on the orders of Muhammad.