Geography/Culture: Pre-Islamic Arabian. Egypt, Palestine. (Nabatean ?)
Linguistic Note: See Lady in the glossary.
Description: Mother Goddess of the sun, the earth, its fertility and fruits, trees and sea-trade; All-nourishing celestial breast; Fertile, benevolent, Ruler of human generation.
As Al-Lat She was considered so unshakable and immovable that an oath invoking Her was binding: "By the salt, by the fire, and by Allat who is greatest of all".
To Whom Sacred: trees, especially date-palm and olive; mice; the opposed thumb.
Male Associate: son, Nabatean Dusares, the Vine God worshipped in Egypt.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Also called Al-Lat, The-Goddess, below.
• It seems very possible that Al-Lat is related to the name Baalat, Lady,a Goddess Who is linked with Zarpanit, Silver-Shining.
• Perhaps equivalent to Isis, Exceeding-Queen.
• She became Latona, Queen-Goddess, in Italy.
• Perhaps cognate with Leda, Lady, Who is linked with Leto, Leto.
• She became known as Leto, Lady, in Greece.
• At Ta'if She was called Rusa, Good-Fortune.

Geography/Culture: Pre-Islamic Arabian.
Linguistic Note: the element Al-, appears to be the pronoun, 'the'. {Is Allah, 'the God'? Try and check}.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Alilat, ----, is the Greek rendering of Near Eastern Lat, Goddess, above.
• Variant form: Allat.
• Variant Greek form: Allita, sounds like a diminutive -- 'The-Little-Goddess'.
• Perhaps Elat, below, is a variant.
• Variant: Hallat.
• Inscriptions have been found in Carthage to Illat, ----, which may be a variant.
• She may have formed one person of a triad, Menat.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The name of Astart, (qv), occurs together with that of Elat is Ras Shamrah texts.

Geography/Culture: Roman. To the 6th c. BC Greeks The Land of the Hyperboreans, where She was born, meant Britain.
Description: Goddess of the moon; She Who determined the length of the sacred king's reign; Eponym of the Latin language.
To Whom Sacred: the number 19 (every 19 years is the approximate concurrence of solar and lunar time).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The name by which Pre-Islamic Arabian Lat, `Goddess' was known in Italy, above.
• She was called Leto, `Lady' (qv), in Greece.