Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Al-maqah or Il-muqah or El-muqah (Epigraphic South Arabian 13px13px13px13px13px; Ge'ez አለመቀሀ, ʾLMQH, Arabic ايل مقة ) was the main god of the ancient Yemeni kingdom of Saba' and the kingdoms of Dʿmt and Aksum in Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia. On Al-maqah being the sun god scholar Jacques Ryckmans states; \"Almaqah is considered a moon god, but Garbini and Pirenne have shown that the bull's head and the vine motif associated with him may have solar and dionysiac attributes. He was therefore a sun god, the male counterpart of the sun goddess Šams, who was also venerated in Saba, but as a tutelary goddess of the royal dynasty.\"[1] The ruling dynasty of Saba' regarded themselves as his children. Almaqah is represented on monuments by a cluster of lightning bolts surrounding a curved, sickle-like weapon. Bulls were sacred to him.The word El-Muqah means God the Preserver or God of Muqah, El is God in the Sabaean, Akkadian, Phoenician, Northwest Semitic languages.While Muqah means the Preserver or the Strong."@en }
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- Almaqah abstract "Al-maqah or Il-muqah or El-muqah (Epigraphic South Arabian 13px13px13px13px13px; Ge'ez አለመቀሀ, ʾLMQH, Arabic ايل مقة ) was the main god of the ancient Yemeni kingdom of Saba' and the kingdoms of Dʿmt and Aksum in Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia. On Al-maqah being the sun god scholar Jacques Ryckmans states; \"Almaqah is considered a moon god, but Garbini and Pirenne have shown that the bull's head and the vine motif associated with him may have solar and dionysiac attributes. He was therefore a sun god, the male counterpart of the sun goddess Šams, who was also venerated in Saba, but as a tutelary goddess of the royal dynasty.\"[1] The ruling dynasty of Saba' regarded themselves as his children. Almaqah is represented on monuments by a cluster of lightning bolts surrounding a curved, sickle-like weapon. Bulls were sacred to him.The word El-Muqah means God the Preserver or God of Muqah, El is God in the Sabaean, Akkadian, Phoenician, Northwest Semitic languages.While Muqah means the Preserver or the Strong.".