Hubal is a spirit worshipped in () in a black shrine, associated with the moon, with rain and with war. Hubal's idol is a humanoid figure fashioned from a red stone. Its right hand had broken off sometime during prehistory and was subsequently replaced by a substitute fashioned of gold. Although the true appearance of Hubal is not to be acertained, it is known that his power worked through this idol - when treated to a sacrifice of camels in his honor, Hubal would enable acts of divination, carried out by casting seven arrows before his idol, with the pattern in which they fell revealing the future or faraway events to those who know how to read them. It can be assumed that Hubal was of humanoid shape, or could at least appear as such. The origins of Hubal's worship are uncertain, but it i
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| - Hubal is a spirit worshipped in () in a black shrine, associated with the moon, with rain and with war. Hubal's idol is a humanoid figure fashioned from a red stone. Its right hand had broken off sometime during prehistory and was subsequently replaced by a substitute fashioned of gold. Although the true appearance of Hubal is not to be acertained, it is known that his power worked through this idol - when treated to a sacrifice of camels in his honor, Hubal would enable acts of divination, carried out by casting seven arrows before his idol, with the pattern in which they fell revealing the future or faraway events to those who know how to read them. It can be assumed that Hubal was of humanoid shape, or could at least appear as such. The origins of Hubal's worship are uncertain, but it i
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| - Hubal is a spirit worshipped in () in a black shrine, associated with the moon, with rain and with war. Hubal's idol is a humanoid figure fashioned from a red stone. Its right hand had broken off sometime during prehistory and was subsequently replaced by a substitute fashioned of gold. Although the true appearance of Hubal is not to be acertained, it is known that his power worked through this idol - when treated to a sacrifice of camels in his honor, Hubal would enable acts of divination, carried out by casting seven arrows before his idol, with the pattern in which they fell revealing the future or faraway events to those who know how to read them. It can be assumed that Hubal was of humanoid shape, or could at least appear as such. The origins of Hubal's worship are uncertain, but it is said that his cult and indeed his idol were brought from city-states further north, indeed implying an Atlantean connection. The "-bal" component of his name clearly points to an etymological consistency with the "baals". This also implies that, if Hubal had a physical presence distinct from his idol, would reside in the Kaaba. It is possible that Hubal's cult and its trappings are just a local variation of the worship of Melqart or some other deity found in other places.
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