Local tutelary god. Western Semitic (Nabataean). Associated with vegetation and fertility in the Hauran region from about 312 BC until circa AD 500. Regarded as a supreme deity, comparable to BAALSˇ AMIN, who never achieved Dusˇara’s popularity among the nomadic Nabataeans, for whom farming was precarious.
He was represented by a black obelisk at Petra.
Sacred animals are the eagle and panther. Attributes include a vine stem. In Hellenic times he was the subject of inscriptions at Delos and Miletus and he was equated with DIONYSOS.
Also Dusˇares; Dus-Sˇ ara.
Witch's Well 