#Holographic sticker
Based on a sculpture
#Canaanite #goddess #Asherah,
13th century BCE.
From the #Israel Museum via Wikimedia Commons.
Size: 33 mm x 75 mm
Note that the colouration varies according to the angle of view.
Asherah/Asherim: Bible
by Susan Ackerman
from The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women
Features thousands of biographic and thematic essays on Jewish women around the world. Learn more
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/asherahasherim-bible
In Brief
Asherah, along with Astarte and Anath, was one of the three great goddesses of the Canaanite pantheon. In Canaanite religion her primary role was that of mother goddess. Canaanites associated Asherah with sacred trees, an association also found in the Israelite tradition. Israel’s association of Asherah with sacred trees is repeated over thirty times in the Bible; many of these citations are stereotypically used by the biblical writers to describe sites of idolatrous worship, implying that the worship of Asherah was an apostate behavior in Israel and improper for followers of YHWH. Despite these and other references associating Asherah with apostasy, contemporary discoveries have further indicated that, at least in the opinion of some ancient Israelites, YHWH and Asherah were appropriately worshipped as a pair.