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{{Short description|Palmyran Arab god}}
{{Infobox deity
| type = Canaanite
| name = Azizos
| god_of = God of the morning star
| image = Siria, regione di hauran o tell halaf, divinità armata su un dromedario, forse allat o azizos, I-III sec..JPG
| caption = Relief carving of Azizos riding a [[dromedary]], from the region of [[Tell Halaf]] and [[Harran]] (1st–3rd century AD)
| cult_center = [[Palmyra]]
| siblings = [[Arsu]]
| greek_equivalent = [[Ares]]
| roman_equivalent = [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]]
}}
In ancient [[Arab mythology]], '''Azizos''' or '''Aziz''' ([[Palmyrene Aramaic|Palmyrene]]: 𐡰𐡦𐡩𐡦 ''ʿzyz'') is the [[Palmyra]]n Arab<ref>{{Cite book|title=Cults and Beliefs at Edessa|last=Drijvers|first=H. J. W.|publisher=Brill Publishers|year=2015|isbn=978-90-04-29562-9|pages=Chapter Six: THE CULT OF AZIZOS AND MONIMOS AND OTHER ARAB DEITIES}}</ref> god of the [[Venus|morning star]]. He is portrayed as riding a [[camel]] with his [[twin]] brother [[Arsu]], although one source says that "Azizos is depicted as a horseman, whereas Arşu is a cameleer."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Texidor |first1=Javier |title=The Pantheon of Palmyra |date=1979 |publisher=E.J.Brill |location=Eeiden |isbn=90-04-05987-3 |page=70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TccUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA70 |access-date=Jan 31, 2020}}</ref> He was venerated separately in [[Syria]] as god of the morning star, [[Phosphoros]], in company with the astral god [[Monimos]], Hesperos.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Drijvers |first1=H.J.W. |title=Cults and Beliefs at Edessa |date=1980 |publisher=E.J.Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=90-04-06050-2 |page=150 |edition=Jan 31, 2020 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69YUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA150}}</ref>

Azizos was identified as Ares by [[Julian (emperor)|Julian]] in his work 'Hymn to King Helios'.  He says "Now I am aware that Ares, who is called Azizos by the Syrians who inhabit Emesa..."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Flavius Claudius Julianus |last2=Wright |first2=Emily Wilmer Cave (tr.) |title=Hymn to King Helios (154) |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn_to_King_Helios |access-date=Feb 1, 2020}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Roman temple of Bziza]]
{{Fertile Crescent myth (Levantine)}}

==References==
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==Sources==

*Encyclopedia of Gods, Michael Jordan, Kyle Cathie Limited, 2002

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