Over Almaqah is niet veel te vinden, zeker niet in relatie tot Mecca. Meestal wordt verwezen naar Ptolemeus die de stad heeft genoemd: " Religiöses Zentrum war Mekka (Makkah). Der Name ist im Corpus Ptolemaicum (im 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr.) in der Form Makoraba erwähnt, ein Wort, das von dem sabäischen Makuraba ("Heiligtum") abgeleitet ist. Mit anderen Worten: zu Anfang war Mekka ein Heiligtum, um das zunehmend eine Stadt wuchs. "
http://www.kirche-in.at/titel-3-06-02.htm Mekka betekent dus heiligdom en is Sabaisch van oorsprong, net als Almaqah. In Mekka was Hubal (Baal) echter de hoofdgod.
Over de emigratie vanuit Jemen, over de Ghassaniden
"It is said that the Ghassanids came from the city of Ma'rib in Yemen. There was a dam in this city, however one year there was so much rain that the dam was carried away by the ensuing flood. " We spreken alleen van het jaar 250, niet 570 dus. Hoewel er een paar dingen opvallen:
- de Ummayaden noemden zich Banu abd-shams, zij namen Damascus (shams) tot hun hoofdstad.
- Shams is de naam van een zonnegod die in Saba vereerd werd, in een goden-triade met Almaqah en een Venus-god.
Zullen de vluchtelingen van 570 niet naar hun verwanten in Syrie zijn gegaan ? (Mohammed is geboren in 572) (In 570 or 575, the dam was again overtopped and this time left unrepaired. The final destruction of the dam is noted in the Koran and the consequent failure of the irrigation system provoked the migration of up to 50,000 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma'rib_Dam )
Interessant:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Response ... theism.htm
In the Koran, King Zulqarnain is considered a good Muslim. Zulqarnain means “two-horned one,” which refers to the crescent atop the royal crown he wore. The crescent crown indicates allegiance to the moon-god. That crown, together with the fact that Zulqarnain watched the sun set in a mud puddle (K 018:083), shows that the Zulqarnain parable, and the Koran besides, has a pro-lunar and anti-solar message.
In the Koran, the Queen of Sheba was wrong to worship the sun-goddess Shams in addition to Almaqah, the moon-god (K 027:024). Egerton Sykes wrote that Allah “seems to have been preceded by Ilmaqah [aka Almaqah] the [Sabean] moon-god” [10] who ultimately was modeled on the Mesopotamian moon-god Sin. The Koran’s Queen of Sheba account shows that the Koran is a pro-lunar, anti-solar scripture.
The traditionalists have long been aware of the revisionists’ facts, but still classify Syn and Almaqah as moon-gods. While no inscription explicitly says Syn and Almaqah are moon-gods, no inscription says they are sun-gods either. Moreover, at each temple there are crescent-and-orb symbols, and these tend to be lunar symbols especially in the absence of solar symbols such as sun disks with rays.
Other examples of how the names change when gods are transported to south Arabia from Mesopotamia and the Levant are: Hubal from HaBaal, Shams from Shemesh, ‘Athtar from Ishtar, Anbay from Nabu, and Il and Ilah from El.
While the bulls and bullheads associated with Almaqah and Syn could be sun-god symbols, the fact that ibex icons with curved horns, and other moon-god symbols, are often found with bulls and bullheads figures suggest that the bulls are lunar icons. For instance, a Sabean bucranium (bull’s head) coin issue from the early 2nd to mid-3rd century AD has a bull’s head, an orb and crescent, Almaqah’s bent ladder symbol, and a Bakhkh symbol that meant “Glory be to Allah.” Moreover, Almaqah is called the “Lord of the horned goats” [20] and “Master of the Ibex.” [21]
The coins of the Sabean kingdom show that Almaqah was a moon-god. They either have owls or bull’s heads, they usually have crescent-and-orb symbols, and often Almaqah’s bent-ladder symbol is present too. An amulet in the British Museum has Himyarite and Pahlavi (Persian Sassanian-era) scripts and shows an eagle standing on a crescent. The Himyarites were the successors to the Sabeans and retained Almaqah as their moon-god, so the eagle on the amulet is likely associated with a South Arabian moon-god. The eagle may have been associated with the moon-god because, while hunting food, they may have perched on crescents and horns that were placed atop buildings in South Arabia.
That the Hadramawt Syn-eagle coin is a moon-god coin is evident from the fact that it has the inscription “The exulted, Moon Crescent,” as was noted above. Moreover, the eagle is standing on a bull’s horn which itself is a primitive half-crescent called a Sukr (or Suqer). The coin has the three-letter inscription that says Sukr. The Sukr were horns placed at the top of buildings in South Arabia, often in pairs that formed a crescent to honor the moon-god and ask for his protection.
The account of the Battle of Uhud and K 037:125 show that Hubal was not Allah, but rather a rival of Allah.
All the foregoing data correlates well with the idea that Hubal was short for Ha-Baal, which means “the Baal.” Torrey wrote about the definite article Ha- (i.e. the): “Ha is so pervasive in all Semitic speech.” [26] The difference in spelling between Ha-Baal and Hubal, like that between Syn and Sin mentioned above, is to be expected. The Ha-Baal to Hubal transformation reminds one of how Allah was originally spelled Hallah and Alaha in pre-Islamic inscriptions. [27]
The Hubal versus Allah clash was an incarnation of the rivalry between the moon-god Sin and the Jupiter-god Marduk that brought down the Babylonian empire. Allah was derived from Sin and Hubal was derived from Marduk. While Allah lost to Hubal at the Battle of Uhud, Allah eventually won the war.
En nog iets, de tempel van Almaqah was ovaal, : A"bd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, an early Muslim who ruled Mecca for many years between the death of Ali ibn Abi Talib and the consolidation of Ummayad power, is said to have demolished the old Kaaba and rebuilt it to include the hatīm,
a semi-circular wall now outside the Kaaba. He did so on the basis of a tradition (found in several hadith collections[17]) that the hatīm was a remnant of the foundations of the Abrahamic Kaaba, and that Muhammad himself had wished to rebuild so as to include it. Ibn Zubayr had Jemen als machtsbasis.