Asherah is a Canaanite mother-goddess, fertility, war and sea-goddess...
Several passages in the Bible may refer to the planting of a tree as a symbol of Asherah, or the setting up of a wooden object as an asherah—the Hebrew words for "tree" and "wood" are the same...
Asherah is identified as the consort of the Sumerian god Anu and Ugaritic El, the oldest deities of their respective pantheons. Other sources identified her as the consort of Baal.
This role gave her a similarly high rank in the Ugaritic pantheon. The name Dione, which like 'Elat means "Goddess", is clearly associated with Asherah in the Phoenician History of Sanchuniathon, because the same common epithet ('Elat) of "the Goddess par excellence" was used to describe her at Ugarit...
For reasons that are not clear she is associated with the sea and is often called "Asherah of the Sea."
A number of allusions refer to Asherah though often her name is hidden by the translation "grove" instead of Asherah.
It might be that in that in the mythology that followed by the Canaanites in Palestine, Asherah and Anat had reversed roles.
It is apparent that the Canaanite tales were not uniform throughout all the Land of Canaan but that different groups had their own version of approximately the same stories...
Some accounts distinguish between Asherah, a Ugaritic mother-goddess who was the consort of Baal, and Asherah, a Canaanite mothergoddess...
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