Editing Hubal (section)

==Mythological role==
The paucity of evidence concerning Hubal makes it difficult to characterise his role or identity in pagan Arabian mythologies. The 19th century scholar [[Julius Wellhausen]] suggested that Hubal was regarded as the son of [[Allat|al-Lāt]] and the brother of [[Wadd]].<ref>Wellhausen, 1926, p. 717, quoted in translation by [http://hanskrause.de/HKHPE/hkhpe_32_01.htm Hans Krause] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050216223426/http://hanskrause.de/HKHPE/hkhpe_32_01.htm |date=2005-02-16 }}</ref> Hugo Winckler in the early twentieth century speculated that Hubal was a [[lunar deity]], a view that was repeated by other scholars.<ref>Hugo Winckler, Arabisch, Semitisch, Orientalisch: Kulturgeschichtlich-Mythologische Untersuchung, 1901, W. Peiser: Berlin, p. 83.</ref> This was derived from Ditlef Nielsen's theory that South Arabian mythology was based on a trinity of Moon-father, Sun-mother and the [[Venus|evening star]] (the planet Venus) envisaged as their son. More recent scholars have rejected this view, partly because it is speculation but also because they believe a Nabataean origin would have made the context of South Arabian beliefs irrelevant.<ref>T. Fahd, ''Le Panthéon De L'Arabie Centrale A La Veille De L'Hégire'', 1968, op. cit., pp. 102-103; T. Fahd, "Une Pratique Cléromantique A La Kaʿba Preislamique", ''Semitica'', 1958, op. cit., pp. 75-76.</ref>

[[Mircea Eliade]] and [[Charles Joseph Adams|Charles J. Adams]] assert that he was "a god of rain and a warrior god. Towards the end of the pre-Islamic era he emerged as an intertribal warrior god worshipped by the Quraysh and the allied tribes of the Kinana and Tihama."<ref>Eliade, Adams, ''The Encyclopedia of religion'', Volume 1, Macmillan, 1987, p.365.</ref> The view that he was a warrior rain god is repeated by David Adams Leeming.<ref>David Adams Leeming, ''Jealous gods and chosen people: the mythology of the Middle East'', Oxford University Press, 2004, p.121.</ref>

John F. Healey in ''The Religion of the Nabataeans'' (2001) accepts the Nabataean origins of the god, but says there is little evidence of Hubal's mythological role, but that it is possible that he was closely linked to [[Dushara]] in some way. The one surviving inscription concerns a religious injunction to placate Hubal and others for violating a tomb.<ref name = "heal"/>