Summary: Asherah (or Asherali) is Canannite Goddess of life and fertility.
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names:
Canaanite name: Asherali, Asherah
Akkadian name: Ashratum, Ashratu
Hebrew name: Asherah
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) name: Qudshu (Holiness)
Hittite name: Asherdu, Asherdus, Ashertu, Ashertus, Aserdu, Aserdus, Asertu, Asertus
Ugartic name: Asherah, Athirat, Elat (Goddess, feminine form of El), Qodesh (Holiness)
(NOTE: In addition to native variations by locality or over time, there are often several possible transliterations into the Roman alphabet used for English.)
basic information:
Asherah: Canaanite Goddess of life and fertility. The primary Semitic Mother Goddess.
Asherah’s relations:
Consort of El. Gave birth to 70 sons by El.
Same as the Hebrew Goddess of the same name, Asherah.
Same as the Ugaritic Goddess Athirat.
In the 18th Dynasty She was introduced into Egypt as Qudshu (meaning Holiness).
magickal information and correspondences:
Symbol: crescent moon
Sacred candle color: green, white, and silver
planet:
Planet: Moon 
holy days
Saturday: Asherah is associated with Saturday.
other:
Asherah — The original bread of life. Hebrew and Canaanite women molded loaves of this figure which were blessed and ritually eaten, the precursor of the communion wafer. Her idols were found under every green tree, were carved from living trees, or erected as poles or pillars beside roadside altars. Crude clay images of her as tree of life later evolved into the more refined Syrian Artemis. Ancient sexual rites (dismissed to this day by male scholars as cult prostitution) associated with worship of Asherah insured that matrilineal descent patterns, with their partnership rather than dominator values, would continue. Hebrew priestly iconoclasts finally uprooted Asherah, supplanting matrifocal culture with patriarchy. Our Judeo-Christian inheritance of this law of the Levites, passed on by the Roman Empire, is one source of present-day sex inequality. —picture and text © 1996 JBL Statues (now called Sacred Source), original text created by Tom Laudeman
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religious title certificate
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See also Asherah (Hebrew).
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Books
Asherah appears in the Hebrew Book of Jeremiah, written around 628 B.C.E., with the title Queen of Heaven.
Titles
The following are some of the titles of Asherah:
- the Creatrix of the Gods, or Elohim (Qaniyatu ihm)
- Holiness (Qodesh)
- Lady Athirat of the Sea (Ugaritic texts from before 1200 B.C.E.
- Queen of Heaven
- She Who Treads on the Sea (Ugaritic texts from before 1200 B.C.E.
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