Qaws
Nabataean · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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 the Archer (of the rainbow, qaws Quzah)Knauf, 'Qaus' in Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Khirbet et-Tannur inscription; stele at Petra; Edomite Qōs theophorics (primary); Healey, The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus (secondary)