Alaha

Alaha (ܐܠܗܐ in Syriac script) means the One God transliterated from the Aramaic language. Syriac Christians believe that the Arabic الله Allah was derived from the Syriac term for God. Both terms apply to the God of Abraham (ܐܒܪܗܡ in Syriac script) and the Prophets (ܐܢܒܝܐ in Syriac script) that followed.

From the ancient
The metamorphosis from henotheism to monotheism happened in the city of Ur according to the bible. However, the historical reality is that perhaps the original form of monotheistic religion in Babylon and/or the Near East may have already existed and that it may have evolved from worship of one specific god; Ashur of the Assyrians for instance became their main deity. Yahweh, or Yah for short; is the name of the god of Israel. That deity had preexisted as a god in that region millennia before the existence of the Tanakh. Ironically in the city of Ur, the main deity was Sin, the moon god. Iah, pronounced the same as Yah, happened to be an ancient Egyptian moon god. Another irony is that Abraham is considered by Muslims to be the patriarch of Islam; which has the crescent moon as the symbol of the religion. Also, the Islamic, Jewish, and Babylonian calendars were lunar. The word for years in Aramaic is Moons (Šenê). It is possible to say that originally the moon was seen as a heavenly celestial body which may have been later deified just as heros and kings had been (see Gilgamesh). The ancient people, particularly the Egyptians, would often attribute stars and/or heavenly objects to fallen relatives and nobles, forming many legends that may still exist in some form today.

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