Ashera Queen of the Heavens Reproduction on Canvas

Asherah, Canaanite Goddess and consort of Yahweh. She is known as the “Queen of the Heavens”, also known as Ishtar in Mesopotamia, Ashtoret in Syria-Palestine as Ashtartu in Egypt, and to the Greeks She was Astarte. The names all share a root in a Semitic word that means irrigation, as such, she is associated with growth (particularly groves and fruit trees) and waters that give fertility to the land.  She is the Primordial and Supreme Goddess of Creation, as powerful as God. She is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, Sacred and Divine. 

She is the one to go to at times of overwhelming odds, for deaths, births and all important passages of life. 

Her worshippers used small clay images on their Altars, most of which were commercially manufactured from molds by Hebrew and Canaanite artisans, intended for home use, and they celebrated Her with fertility rituals and festivals. However She is most often represented by the Asherah- a Sacred tree or pole planted in the ground, to honor the Goddess,  and emphasizing Her relationship to trees; in fact, Bible scholars report that the Christmas tree was initially venerated in honor of the Goddess. Whether the Hebrews learned her worship from the Canaanites or whether Goddess Asherah is an indigenous Hebrew Goddess remains a mystery, but we know that She was important enough to be mentioned 40 times in the Bible (one of Her well known Priestesses was Jezebel).

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