Yaghūth (Arabic "He Helps" يَغُوثَ)
was a deity referred to in the Quran (71:23)
as a god of the era of the Prophet Noah:
And they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsake
Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and
Nasr. (Qur'an 71:23)
Maulana Muhammad Ali adds the following commentary
on the passage:
The names of the idols given here are those
which existed in Arabia in the Prophet's time,
and hence some critics call it an anachronism.
[...] According to IʿAb, the idols of Noah's
people were worshipped by the Arabs, Wadd
being worshipped by Kalb, Suwāʿ by Hudhail,
Yaghūth by Murād, Yaʿūq by Hamadān and
Nasr by Ḥimyar (B. 65:lxxi, 1). The commentators
say that Wadd was worshipped in the form of
a man, Suwāʿ in that of a woman, Yaghūth
in that of a lion, Yaʿūq in that of a horse
and Nasr in that of an eagle (Rz).
The name may be the source of H. P. Lovecraft's
Yuggoth.
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