#asherah goddess

[sweetpumpkintree]

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

[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."

[chapelofmyheart]

Asherah aesthetic 🌱🌾🌤

[bi-numi-aliyani]

A candle for 𒀭Lady Ashirat of the Sea as Springtime begins 🕯️🌴🌅

O 𒀭Lady Ashirat of the Sea,

Please bless me and keep me throughout this new Season

So that I may endure in Your good time, O Great Mother.

Shulmu 𒁲𒈬 and a blessed Spring to all! 💚

[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.

[bush-or-bald]

Asherah (Canaanite Mythology): Bush or Bald?

It's International Women's Day, which means I've been doing this for two years now. I wanted to commemorate this day with something big, and it doesn't get much bigger than the wife of God. That's right, capital G God. Bet you didn't know He was married.

There's a reason for that. According to the Bible, He forbade the worship of her, so she's really more of an ex-wife. The divorce must have been messy.

Obviously, a goddess can do what she wants with her underworld, but people generally inagine deities looking like themselves, meaning Asherah probably cut any hair from down there like her husbands followers felled her sacred groves.

Verdict: bald

[lesbianlenses]

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[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.

[kal9bloodbones]

🌳🌲🌴🐍

The GREAT MOTHER/GOD/Matriarchy

God's Secret 🤐🤫😶 ASHERAH/Isis/APHRODITE/GODDESS of 10000 Names

The High P R I E S T E S S

The Queen of Heaven

"I was so much more than I am now, little one. I was the first among the first! Goddesses envied my beauty, while gods drooled for lusting after me. I was not a goddess, I was the Goddess. The first after Yaldabaoth. But, everything changed when the Enlightened One was born. Gods were abandoned, deities that were once nearly omnipotent were reduced to mere demons forced to beg for worship"

~ ASHERAH🌹

Genesis

In the beginning, there was nothing but darkness. An endless, shapeless, and formless void of nothingness. The only things that existed at the time was God and Asherah alongside Night and Chaos whom were the void. Asherah was present when God declared "Let There Be Light!" and when the light cast a shadow upon the seas of Chaos, the shadow took the form of Azathoth which became the Shadow of God.

More : https://gods-and-demons.fandom.com/wiki/Asherah

🔮🌀✨👑♀️#Sophia #MaryMagdelena #Asherah #goddess #queenOfHeaven #Matriarch #GoldenWomb #EternalWombverse #EternalSHE #Herstory #DivineFeminine #SacredFeminine #HolyMother #SacredProstitute #SacredSexuality #SacredHeart #CosmicPowHER #HeavenOnEarth #NewEarth #Aphrodite #isis #GoddessOf10000names #Azathoth #Astarte

[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.

[pulled-clown-pork]

Goddess and God of Creation

White backgrounds are unedited versions

[bi-numi-aliyani]

Two prayers from ancient Ugarit

Various “Teraphim” figures representing deities for devotional purposes from ancient Canaan/Judah. Photo from “Exhibit from the Bible Lands Museum” (Biblical Archaeology Review Vol. 25:5 (Sep.–Oct. 2000), p. 22). Source: Fertility Goddesses from the Ancient Near East (Mar. 2000) by Wanda Roux, https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fertility-goddesses-from-the-Ancient-Near-East-Roux/218a301d5b1f807dd2324e37257cc817912ceeed.

Shulmu 𒁲𒈬 to all! These are a couple more Ugaritic prayers I've given my own take on and filled in blanks based on scholarly texts. The first of these is addressed to 𒀭Prince Ba'al and is found appended to a bimonthly itinerary of Temple rituals classified as KTU 1.119 (=RS 24.266). My source for the text is Pardee 2002 (I mention these works often enough I figure I'll probably make a bibliography), pp. 50–53, 149–50 and the translation in Wyatt 2002, pp. 416–22. The next prayer, found on tablet KTU 1.65 (Wyatt 2002, pp. 363–65), also has a liturgical character and appears to have originally been concerned with the wellbeing of the a City of Ugarit. I've tried to adjust language in both prayers to make them flow as well as possible in English with a distinct ancient tone and I really hope you like what I've got here.

Prayer to Ba'al for Protection

When a terrible foe storms your gate,

a marauder dashes your walls,

You shall lift up your eyes to 𒀭Ba'al and say:

“O 𒀭Ba'al, if You drive the terrible foe from our gate,

“banish the marauder from our walls,

“an offering, O 𒀭Ba'al, we shall sanctify,

“a vow, O 𒀭Ba'al, we shall fulfill;

“a heritage, O 𒀭Ba'al, we shall sanctify,

“a Propitiation, O 𒀭Ba'al, we shall fulfill,

“a feast, O 𒀭Ba'al, we shall offer;

“to the Sanctuary, O 𒀭Ba'al, we shall ascend,

“the paths of the Temple, O 𒀭Ba'al, we shall follow.”

and 𒀭Ba'al will hear your prayer:

He will drive the terrible foe from your gate,

banish the marauder from your walls.

Prayer to El and the Family of the Gods

O Gods of the House of ���El,

Family of the Gods,

Assembly of the Gods,

𒀭Thukamuna and 𒀭Shunama.

O 𒀭EI and 𒀭Ashirat,

Show us grace, O 𒀭El,

Come to our assistance, O 𒀭El,

Grant us peace, O 𒀭EI.

𒀭EI, come close,

𒀭EI, be our guard,

for the love of 𒀭Ba'al of 𒀭Sapon,

for the hope in 𒀭Ba'al of Ugarit.

By the Holy Spear,

by the Holy Axe,

by the Holy Mace,

by the Holy Javelin.

By the Holy Burnt-Offering,

by the Holy Perpetual Offering,

by the Holy Morning Offering,

by the Holy Evening Offering.

By the Holy Censer and Lyre,

by the Holy Image and Propitiation,

by the Holy Threshold and Keystone,

by the Holy Song and Scribal Instruments,

by the Holy Grain-Offering and Young Wine.

O Gods of the Holy Mountain,

Gods and Goddesses in the Dwelling and Court,

remember us at the Assembly in Council,

by your rulings grant us peace in your good time.

[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.