Why is Allah represented by a crescent moon?
In Arabia, the sun god was viewed as a female goddess and the moon as the male god. As has been pointed out by many scholars such as Alfred Guilluame, the moon god was called by various names, one of which was Allah! [Alfred Buillaume, Islam (London: Penguin Books, 1954), p. 6] Allah, the moon god, was married to the sun goddess. Together they produced three goddesses who were called “the daughters of Allah.” These three goddesses were called Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat. The daughters of Allah, along with Allah and the sun goddess were viewed as “high” gods. That is, they were viewed as being at the top of the pantheon of Arabian deities. “Along with Allah, however, they worshipped a host of lesser gods and ‘daughters of Allah.'” [Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, I:61] The Mandaean remnants of the early Nazoreans are also asociated with a place called Hauran: In his Semitic Mythology, Langdon indicates that Allat was the high goddess of choice, even more than Allah. The Nabat
