TYPE: Local Tutelary God
ORIGIN: Western Semitic - Nabataean
INFORMATION: Associated with vegetation and fertility in the Hauran region from about 312 BCE until circa CE 500. Regarded as a supreme deity, comparable to Baal Samin, who never achieved Dusara'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 Dusares; Dus-Sara.