I don't call people idiots, but Robert Morey and his clan are a Major Exception
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Straight from http//www.bible.ca/islam/islam-photos-moon-worship-archealolgy.htm
Yerah - The Moon God of Canaan
In the 1950's a major temple to the moon-god was excavated at Hazor in Palestine. Two idols of the moon-god were found. Each was a statue of a man sitting upon a throne with a crescent moon carved into his chest (below left). The accompanying inscriptions make it clear that these were idols of the moon-god (below right). The worship tablet found at the same sight shows arms outstretched towards the Moon-god here represented by the full moon within the crescent moon. Several smaller statues were also found which were identified by their inscriptions as the daughters of the moon-god.
Thousands of inscriptions from walls and rocks in northern Arabia have also been collected. Reliefs and votive bowls used in worship of the "daughters of Allah" have also been discovered. The three daughters, Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat are sometimes depicted together with Allah the moon-god represented by a crescent moon above them (North Arabian archaeological finds concerning Al-Lat are discussed in
• Isaac Rabinowitz, Aramaic Inscriptions of the Fifth Century, JNES, XV, 1956, pp.1-9;
• Another Aramaic Record of the North Arabian goddess Han'Llat, JNES, XVIII, 1959, pp.154-55
• Edward Linski, The Goddess Atirat in Ancient Arabia, in Babylon and in Ugarit Her Relation to the Moon-god and the Sun-goddess, Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica, 3101-9
• H.J.Drivers, Iconography and Character of the Arab Goddess Allat, found in ?tudes Preliminaries Aux Religions
• Orientales Dans L'Empire Roman, ed. Maarten J. Verseren, Leiden, Brill, 1978, pp.331-51)A Moon God indeed ... lolz
Let us look at the statues. They are clearly depicting a cubic godess' vulva about to give birth. The circle is the crown of a baby (perhaps a blessing?). The hands are stretched out in order to receive the baby. The structure of the man (or woman?) sitting has not the moon/crescent, but the Rinsing Sun inscribed on the chest! The crescent moon does not outline this way...
Sidenote
On to a serious turn, the style in which we raise our hands to the heaven to envoke and receive God's mercy/blessing is very reminiscent of this inscription... This style of raising our hands to the heaven when praying is apagan ritual. -
Peace Maxq,
Thank you for the interesting post.
I agree that the curved shape doesn't look like the crescent. The curved shape looks more like a bowl. It is interesting that in Arabic the word "7awd" means bowl or basin and also means pelvis. A derivative word "ma7id" means "menstruation" so this symbol is likely to be a female fertility symbol. Your observation about the hand reaching to catch the newborn deity becomes even more obvious when we see that the new born is coming out between the symbol for the female pelvis.
Peace,
Ayman