#asherah goddess

[elizabeth-halime]

[idkwhatimdoinok]

⛮Lady Asherah of the Sea⛮

Did you know that the bread/cakes made for her is the precursor to the communion wafer?

"The children gather firewood, the men build fires. And the women mix dough to bake cakes for the Queen of Heaven."

[sweetpumpkintree]

Picture offering for Lady Asherah!! May she continue to shine over our doorways with joy, love and protection

[chamberofthespirit]

Asherah aesthetic 🌱🌾🌤

[tsalmu]

Qetesh flanked by Min and Resheph Provenance Unknown, Egypt c. 1300 BCE? Source: The Many Faces of the Goddess by Izak Cornelius, 2008 "Qedeshet" Goddess, Anat? Ashtart? Previously thought to depict Asherah / Ashirat but this is nowadays considered unfounded.

[lesbianlenses]

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[ronaldono-sense]

Let it grow, sister. Unshave now

Asherah, Yahweh's (or rather, originally, El's) consort, is known from the Hebrew Bible (and other sources), but was mostly erased in the English translations.

The so called 'Astarte figurines', from the Bronze Age (circa 3000–1000 BCE), bears strong associations with fertility: from the yonic iconographic suggestions of pubic hair, to her pose cupping her breast.

Her cult was, sadly but of course, persecuted in favour of hegemonic monotheism, despite the former popularity of the goddess.

Think about her next time you're holding it absent-minded.

[studiful-lesbo]

at this point i think my religion is just worshiping divine women. Mother Mary, Diana, Isis, Asherah, they're all my deities

[nogetron]

Asherah, the original mother goddess of the early Semitic mythos. She was the wife of the supreme god El. Asherah birthed the Canaanite pantheon, from Baal and Astarte to Yam and Mot, all of them were born from her union with El. Asherah’s origins are unknown, however it’s believed that she was the feminine aspect of El. In one of the few surviving myths, Asherah is shown as Yam’s biggest supporter for the throne of the chief god. Her epithet of ‘Asherah of the sea’ illustrates just how important their relationship was. Despite her support, Yam ultimately loses to Baal for the throne. Asherah in modern abrahamic faiths was reduced to a false idol, with her ‘poles’ being targeted and destroyed.

Asherah is the earliest depiction of the Mother Goddess trope, with her role in Canaan being so influential it affected the religious landscape. The Mother Goddesses became a ubiquitous feature among polytheistic religions, to the point where the absence of one is something to note. Though her name was demonized in modern times, her essence still lives on in her descendants faiths. As Eve from the garden of Eden is proposed to be derived of Asherah. As El was the predecessor of the Abrahamic God, Asherah’s relationship to the omnipotent deity has become a focal point for her. Her legacy may even live on in the feminine aspect of modern god: Shekinah, and the gnostic Aeon: Sophia.

[magdalene-spirit]

❍The goddesses of love, ecstasy & Eros, are often also the goddesses of War & battle— because they dwell on the ridge between this world and the otherworld, between this world of higher order states of existence and those that are more homogenous, chaotic, plasmic and fluid; the interstitial-embryonic fluid-like states of existence prior to the differentiation and birth of form.

❍Their domain is that borderland, that space in-between, our dreams and the ordinary waking states, the hypnagogic realms. In trance states is where you encounter them. They are the ones that bridge unmanifest possibilities and manifest actuality.

❍With them we hold hands when we wish to manifest and birth new possibilities into form, this is the creative and erotic face of the goddess; but it is also these ones that we hold hands with when we cross the bridge at death to exit this world and enter the next, this is the destroyer face of goddess, the taking away, wiping out of that which is outworn and no longer serves and the tighter we hold on to the old, the harder the battle of letting go becomes.

❍She is there to facilitate our transitions.

❍The liminal goddesses are the spirit beings that walk between this life and the next, liminal in more ways than one, they do not conform to the rules of this world, they transcend them, while they may walk in this world, as archetypes whose characteristics we embody, they and we are ultimately beyond the confines and limitations of this world.

#anat #asherah #warriorgoddess #liminalspace #chaos

[doc-avalon]

[elizabeth-halime]

Asherah/Athirat/Elat = Mother goddess, queen of heaven, goddess of fertility, lady of wisdom, goddess of the seas, the creator of the gods together with the god El, queen of the gods, the one who walks on the sea, patron saint of sailors and fishermen

Athirat is a powerful Goddess, and the other Gods often ask Her to help them, or to try to influence her husband El for their good. As guardian of Wisdom, She is the one who chooses the successor of Aleyin (an aspect of Ba'al as the God of dying vegetation) and, after his death, She instructs Anat in the proper ritual necessary to ensure the fertility of the vines.

Like Ashtart, Athirat is associated with the lion. She is usually shown as a nude Goddess with curly hair covering her breasts with her hands. She is also associated with the snake, and an alternative name for Her is Chawat, which in Hebrew translates as "Hawah", or in English "Eve"; so She may well be the root of the biblical Eve. Like the Carthaginian goddess Tanit, whose name means "Serpent Lady", Athirat was represented as a palm tree or pillar with a snake coiled around her, and the name Athirat derives from a root meaning "straight".

Athirat is associated with the Tree of Life, and a famous ivory box lid of Mycenaean finish found at Ugarit, dated 1300 BC, shows it symbolically representing the Tree. She wears an elaborate skirt and jewelry, and although she is topless, her hair is delicately styled; She is smiling and in her hands holds sheaves of wheat, which she offers to a pair of goats.

[bijoumikhawal]

Then I had a turning point: an encounter woth a rabbi named Paula Reimers who came to speak at Wesleyan. She claimed it was forbidden to imagine God as a mother, because the mother-God would love and forgive us too much. We would have no morality, and we would all become pagans. I knew from my reading that goddesses around the world had severe as well as nurturing attributes. I knew it was wrong to claim that a female God couldn't make laws. I knew it was wrong to say God couldn't appear as a woman. And I knew her dismissive words about religious traditions that revered goddesses were simplistic and bigoted. I was especially angry when [she] waxed eloquent about her personal experience of having God as a male lover. Why couldn't I have God/dess as a female lover?

The Hebrew Priestess pg 5

[pulled-clown-pork]

Goddess and God of Creation

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[goddesscookiefelix]

Does anyone have any experience working with Greek Gods in divination? I worked with Zeus, Lucifer, Elohim, El, Lilith, and Ashburnipal. They don’t seem to help people of color. I inquired about my love life and they all pointed two men I liked to someone else and said it was because she is more attractive than me. They tried to mold me to dress like her, do my hair like her and look more Latina like her and compared my features to hers. When I inquired about my love life they told two men that I am attracted to contact this person over me because when people see me or her they want to sleep with that person not me. They all said this to me and said she’s prettier than me. I was disrespected about my physical appearance compared to hers and made to feel like I was unattractive in everyone’s eyes. I was also told that because I look Indian men don’t find me attractive. I was told constantly to look more Latina. They said that I was having a hard time finding a husband because when men see me their thought about me is that “She’s pretty but she looks Indian”.

They guided people to work with her over me and I was told that Melissa went through her awkward phase once, we all had clothes that we don’t like or feel pretty but she got through it. Mind you, that is not my out look about myself. I love my face and its features and my body. I have a modeling career. Inquired about my love life to one day get married and I was shamed about my physical appearance and and told that I was not attractive because I didn’t look a certain ethnic background.

They would taunt me and say “Melissa (that person) is you sometimes” when I ask for help. I was told by them to throw out my old clothes and dress like a house wife like Melissa did. I was told that they do this to me still this day because they know that I didn’t like having acne and body hair when I was younger so they compared me to her and how I dressed and did my hair and would ask me to try to look like this person. I made a comment in my head that she was very pretty and I wished I looked like her. I noticed she was thicker and shorter. I never scrutinized her or had a bad thought about her. Those beings found that thought about her without my consent and used it to shame me anytime I contacted them for help. When I asked why they favor her over me it’s because she doesn’t have my issues, she doesn’t cry like I do, she doesn’t look like me, and because she’s prettier than me. They choose to help me over her and say that to me because they didn’t want anyone to find anyone from my ethic background attractive and didn’t want them to like my features. In addition, if they did anything to help me, they would disrespect me with everything I mentioned above. They said it’s because you can’t be helped too much by them.

I wanted someone to know that I was racially discriminated against and mentally abused over another woman’s physical appearance while trying to pray to a deity for help. I was made to feel less than and unwelcomed.

Honorable mention, I was mentally abused to believe I was Marilyn Monroe to be shown her breast and genitalia in my third eye which I never asked for.

Another zinger, I was told by Zeus and all those beings mentioned when I followed up with them that I was pregnant even though I am not sexually active and refused to explain how and I was told to never take prenatals when pregnant and then they forced me to take prenatals, which makes no sense.

[tsalmu]

Ivory of a Winged Horned Goddess suckling two boys/kings Ugarit, Syria c. 1200 BCE Source: The Many Faces of the Goddess by Izak Cornelius, 2008

Anat? Ashtart? Ashirat? Shapash? Original is unidentified with no inscription. Anat has been described as a suckling goddess. See Cornelius for further discussion.