Is "salam alaykum"/"shalom aleichem" a polytheist greeting? The word salam/shalom in Arabic and Hebrew, based on the Semitic root Š-L-M, means "peace". But its not only a peace - in the ancient Semitic polytheist tradition, there had been venerated a god of peace and dusk, named Shalim. So I see this as possible that the ancient Semites were using such greeting means not an impersonal peace, but the deity linked with the peacefulness and completion of twilight. #semiticpolytheism#arab#hebrew
