Qaws

Nabataean · deity · mythic · deity

Edomite national god of bow, rainbow, and storm adopted into Nabataean cult; archer weather-god syncretized with Dushara at Khirbet et-Tannur.

Domains

weather
war
archery

Powers

Draw the bow and bend the rainbow as archer
Hurl the multi-pronged thunderbolt as weather-god
wield the multi-pronged thunderbolt as a weather-god

Epithets

Quzah

Sources

Khirbet et-Tannur inscription; stele at Petra; Edomite Qōs theophorics
Healey, The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus

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