These findings, predating Woolley's work at Ur, align more closely with the chronological context of Mesopotamian flood stories, particularly the flood at the end of the Jemdet Nasr period (c.
The Quran names five idols of the people of Nuh (Noah): Wadd, Suwa’, Yaghuth, Ya’uq and Nasr.
Forsake not Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
Nasr, "victory" in the older reading of this page, was the idol of Himyar, the branch of Dhi al-Kala’, in Yemen.
The word nasr also means eagle or vulture, and the commentators give it the form of an eagle.
Maulana Muhammad Ali sums up the commentators' list of forms from the Tafsir al-Kabir of al-Razi: "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."
Wadd has been compared with Babylonian and Assyrian fertility gods, Nasr with the eagle images of Mesopotamia, and Suwa’ with Semitic water gods.
They cling to their idols, such as Wadd, Suwa’, Yaghuth, Ya’uq, and Nasr, insisting on following their forefathers' practices.
There are other gods besides the seven; the text describes the fixed stars such as Sirius as gods, and refers to the Mesopotamian god Tammuz as well as to Nasr, a pre-Islamic Arabian deity.