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Allah The Moon God by kasend(m): 2:09pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
ALLAH – the Moon God
The Archaeology of the Middle East
The religion of Islam has as its focus of
worship a deity by the name of "Allah."
The Muslims claim that Allah in pre-
Islamic times was the biblical God of the
Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles. The
issue is thus one of continuity. Was
"Allah" the biblical God or a pagan god in
Arabia during pre-Islamic times? The
Muslim's claim of continuity is essential
to their attempt to convert Jews and
Christians for if "Allah" is part of the flow
of divine revelation in Scripture, then it is
the next step in biblical religion. Thus we
should all become Muslims. But, on the
other hand, if Allah was a pre-Islamic
pagan deity, then its core claim is
refuted. Religious claims often fall before
the results of hard sciences such as
archeology. We can endlessly speculate
about the past or go and dig it up and
see what the evidence reveals. This is the
only way to find out the truth concerning
the origins of Allah. As we shall see, the
hard evidence demonstrates that the god
Allah was a pagan deity. In fact, he was
the Moon-god who was married to the
sun goddess and the stars were his
daughters.
The reader must know that Islam,
Judaism, and organized Christianity (so-
called) all worship a trinity of gods
Archaeologists have uncovered temples
to the Moon-god throughout the Middle
East. From the mountains of Turkey to
the banks of the Nile, the most wide-
spread religion of the ancient world was
the worship of the Moon-god. In the first
literate civilization, the Sumerians have
left us thousands of clay tablets in which
they described their religious beliefs. As
demonstrated by Sjoberg and Hall, the
ancient Sumerians worshipped a Moon-
god who was called many different
names. The most popular names were
Nanna, Suen and Asimbabbar. His
symbol was the crescent moon. Given the
amount of artifacts concerning the
worship of this Moon-god, it is clear that
this was the dominant religion in
Sumeria. The cult of the Moon-god was
the most popular religion throughout
ancient Mesopotamia. The Assyrians,
Babylonians, and the Akkadians took the
word Suen and transformed it into the
word Sin as their favorite name for the
Moon-God. As Prof. Potts pointed out,
"Sin is a name essentially Sumerian in
origin which had been borrowed by the
Semites."
In ancient Syria and Canna, the Moon-
god Sin was usually represented by the
moon in its crescent phase. At times the
full moon was placed inside the crescent
moon to emphasize all the phases of the
moon. The sun-goddess was the wife of
Sin and the stars were their daughters.
For example, Istar was a daughter of Sin.
Sacrifices to the Moon-god are described
in the Pas Shamra texts. In the Ugaritic
texts, the Moon-god was sometimes
called Kusuh. In Persia, as well as in
Egypt, the Moon-god is depicted on wall
murals and on the heads of statues. He
was the Judge of men and gods. The Old
Testament constantly rebuked the
worship of the Moon-god (Deuteronomy
4:19; 17:3; II Kings 21:3, 5; 23:5;
Jeremiah 8:2; 19:13; Zephaniah 1:5, etc.)
When Israel fell into idolatry, it was
usually the cult of the Moon-god. As a
matter of fact, everywhere in the ancient
world, the symbol of the crescent moon
can be found on seal impressions, steles,
pottery, amulets, clay tablets, cylinders,
weights, earrings, necklaces, wall murals,
etc. In Tell-el-Obeid, a copper calf was
found with a crescent moon on its
forehead. An idol with the body of a bull
and the head of man has a crescent
moon inlaid on its forehead with shells.
In Ur, the Stele of Ur-Nammu has the
crescent symbol placed at the top of the
register of gods because the Moon-god
was the head of the gods. Even bread
was baked in the form of a crescent as
an act of devotion to the Moon-god. The
Ur of the Chaldees was so devoted to the
Moon-god that it was sometimes called
Nannar in tablets from that time period.
A temple of the Moon-god has been
excavated in Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley.
He dug up many examples of moon
worship in Ur and these are displayed in
the British Museum to this day. Harran
was likewise noted for its devotion to the
Moon-god. In the 1950's a major temple
to the Moon-god was excavated at Hazer
in Palestine. Two idols of the Moon god
were found. Each was a stature of a man
sitting upon a throne with a crescent
moon carved on his chest. The
accompanying inscriptions make it clear
that these were idols of the Moon-god.
Several smaller statues were also found
which were identified by their inscriptions
as the "daughters" of the Moon-god.
What about Arabia? As pointed out by
Prof. Coon, "Muslims are notoriously
loath to preserve traditions of earlier
paganism and like to garble what pre-
Islamic history they permit to survive in
anachronistic terms."
During the nineteenth century, Amaud,
Halevy and Glaser went to Southern
Arabia and dug up thousands of Sabean,
Minaean, and Qatabanian inscriptions
which were subsequently translated. In
the 1940's, the archeologists G. Caton
Thompson and Carleton S. Coon made
some amazing discoveries in Arabia.
During the 1950's, Wendell Phillips, W.F.
Albright, Richard Bower and others
excavated sites at Qataban, Timna, and
Marib (the ancient capital of Sheba).
Thousands of inscriptions from walls and
rocks in Northern Arabia have also been
collected. Reliefs and votive bowls used
in worship of the "daughters of Allah"
have also been discovered. The three
daughters, al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat are
sometimes depicted together with Allah
the Moon-god represented by a crescent
moon above them. The archeological
evidence demonstrates that the dominant
religion of Arabia was the cult of the
Moon-god.
In Old Testament times, Nabonidus
(555-539 BC), the last king of Babylon,
built Tayma, Arabia as a center of Moon-
god worship. Segall stated, "South
Arabia's stellar religion has always been
dominated by the Moon-god in various
variations." Many scholars have also
noticed that the Moon-god's name "Sin"
is a part of such Arabic words as "Sinai,"
the "wilderness of Sin," etc. When the
popularity of the Moon-god waned
elsewhere, the Arabs remained true to
their conviction that the Moon-god was
the greatest of all gods. While they
worshipped 360 gods at the Kabah in
Mecca, the Moon-god was the chief
deity. Mecca was in fact built as a shrine
for the Moon-god.
This is what made it the most sacred site
of Arabian paganism. In 1944, G. Caton
Thompson revealed in her book, The
Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha,
that she had uncovered a temple of the
Moon-god in southern Arabia. The
symbols of the crescent moon and no
less than twenty-one inscriptions with
the name Sin were found in this temple.
An idol which may be the Moon-god
himself was also discovered. This was
later confirmed by other well-known
archeologists.
The evidence reveals that the temple of
the Moon-god was active even in the
Christian era. Evidence gathered from
both North and South Arabia
demonstrate that Moon-god worship was
clearly active even in Muhammad's day
and was still the dominant cult.
According to numerous inscriptions, while
the name of the Moon-god was Sin, his
title was al-ilah, i.e. "the deity," meaning
that he was the chief or high god among
the gods. As Coon pointed out, "The god
Il or Ilah was originally a phase of the
Moon God." The Moon-god was called al-
ilah, i.e. the god, which was shortened to
Allah in pre-Islamic times. The pagan
Arabs even used Allah in the names they
gave to their children. For example, both
Muhammad's father and uncle had Allah
as part of their names.
The fact that they were given such names
by their pagan parents proves that Allah
was the title for the Moon-god even in
Muhammad's day. Prof. Coon goes on to
say, "Similarly, under Mohammed's
tutelage, the relatively anonymous Ilah,
became Al-Ilah, The God, or Allah, the
Supreme Being."
This fact answers the questions, "Why is
Allah never defined in the Qur'an? Why
did Muhammad assume that the pagan
Arabs already knew who Allah was?"
Muhammad was raised in the religion of
the Moon-god Allah. But he went one
step further than his fellow pagan Arabs.
While they believed that Allah, i.e. the
Moon-god, was the greatest of all gods
and the supreme deity in a pantheon of
deities, Muhammad decided that Allah
was not only the greatest god but the
only god.
In effect he said, "Look, you already
believe that the Moon-god Allah is the
greatest of all gods. All I want you to do
is to accept that the idea that he is the
only god. I am not taking away the Allah
you already worship. I am only taking
away his wife and his daughters and all
the other gods." This is seen from the
fact that the first point of the Muslim
creed is not, "Allah is great" but "Allah is
the greatest," i.e., he is the greatest
among the gods. Why would Muhammad
say that Allah is the "greatest" except in
a polytheistic context? The Arabic word
is used to contrast the greater from the
lesser. That this is true is seen from the
fact that the pagan Arabs never accused
Muhammad of preaching a different Allah
than the one they already worshipped.
This "Allah" was the Moon-god according
to the archeological evidence.
Muhammad thus attempted to have it
both ways. To the pagans, he said that
he still believed in the Moon-god Allah.
To the Jews and the Christians, he said
that Allah was their God too. But both
the Jews and the Christians knew better
and that is why they rejected his god
Allah as a false god. |
Re: Allah The Moon God by Nobody: 2:28pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
Muhammad thus attempted to have it both ways. To the pagans, he said that he still believed in the Moon-god Allah. To the Jews and the Christians, he said that Allah was their God too. But both the Jews and the Christians knew better and that is why they rejected his god Allah as a false god. Mohamed must have been an evil genius, see packaging |
Re: Allah The Moon God by Demmzy15(m): 4:38pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
Rants as usual, smh....throughout the article I saw that the writer focused mainly on "Southern Arabia" e.g environs of present day Yemen which later became an hub for Ethiopian Christians before Islam took over. What you should know is that, Mecca and Medina which were Islam's strongholds are in Northern Arabia. So all this is nonsense! 1 Like |
Re: Allah The Moon God by Nobody: 4:48pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
Demmzy15: What is this one ranting about |
Re: Allah The Moon God by iameugene(m): 4:49pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
Me 2012: im waiting for the day you people will have sense Me 2013: im waiting for the day you people will have sense Me 2014: im waiting for the day you people will have sense Me 2015: im tired of waiting for you people to have sense... I quit |
Re: Allah The Moon God by Nobody: 4:54pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
iameugene: It is haram( a sin) for muslims to have or use their sense as far as the religion is concerned |
Re: Allah The Moon God by iameugene(m): 4:59pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
Jagoon:but im still tired for u ppl to hv sense cux ive not seen where i said im a muslim |
Re: Allah The Moon God by Nobody: 5:04pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
iameugene: And did I say or imply that you are a muslim |
Re: Allah The Moon God by iameugene(m): 5:06pm On Aug 04, 2015 |
Jagoon:ok but u ppl still dont hv sense |
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