Dusˇara (‘the one’ of sˇara)

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.