Sa'd
Arabian · deity · pantheon era · deity
A TALL STONE IN OPEN DESERT, with no temple around it. Several of this batch's idols are natural objects rather than made images — a standing stone here, a granite outcrop for al-Fals, two petrified people at Mecca.
Domains
- fortune
- tribal patronage of kinana
- the standing stone
Sources
- Reference treatment of Sa'd: a god of fortune in pre-Islamic Arabia revered by the Banu Kinana tribe; his cult image was a tall stone standing in the desert.
- Ibn al-Kalbi, Kitab al-Asnam (early 9th c. CE)