Nasr (deity)

According to the Quran, Nasr (Arabic: نسر) was a pre-Islamic Arabian deity at the time of the Noah:"وقالوا لا تذرن آلهتكم ولا تذرن ودا ولا سواعا ولا يغوث ويعوق ونسراAnd they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsake Wadd, nor Suwāʿ, nor Yaghūth and Yaʿūq and Nasr.

"[Quran 71:23]Hisham ibn Al-Kalbi's Book of Idols describes a temple to Nasr at Balkha, an otherwise unknown location.

[5][6][7][8] Himyaritic inscriptions were thought to describe "the vulture of the east" and "the vulture of the west", which Augustus Henry Keane interpreted as solstitial worship;[9] however these are now thought to read "eastward" and "westward" with n-s-r as a preposition.

[13] Nasr has been identified by some scholars with Maren-Shamash,[3][14] who is often flanked by vultures in depictions at Hatra.

[3][17] A further mention is found in one manuscript of Jacob of Serugh's On the Fall of the Idols, wherein the Persians are said to have been led by the devil to construct and worship Nishra.