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The Goddess Series: Asherah and Her Daughters

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Asherah was the oldest of the Canaanite goddesses, and was mentioned in a Sumerian inscription as early as 1750 BC, where she was referred to as the wife of Anu (the Sumerian name for El, the father god of the Canaanite pantheon). In the Hebrew Scriptures, her name is translated as “grove”, and she was typically represented as the Tree of Life, although among her many other titles she was also the “Lady Who Traverses the Sea”, and the “Mother of the Gods”, of whom she bore more than 70.

Astarte is only referred to nine times in the Bible (compared to Asherah’s forty entries), but by the 5th or 6th century BC she was almost certainly more widely worshiped. However, there is considerable disagreement about whether Astarte was the daughter of Asherah, or merely another of Asherah’s aspects, or another name for Asherah’s daughter  Anath, the wife-sister of Baal (Anath is not mentioned directly at all in the Hebrew Scriptures). Astarte was referred to as the “Queen of Heaven”. The original meaning of her name was “womb”, suggesting that she was a fertility goddess, and she was also, as patron of the coastal city of Sidon, the “Virgin of the Sea”.

Source: The Goddess: Power, Sexuality, and the Feminine Divine by Shahrukh Husain. Pg. 39.

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