Winds of Change

Paganism in Israel

Amazing! I am so happy! No, I am not a follower of the Canaanite or Sumerian pantheons, but this is a start.

People are starting to get back to their roots.

There's so much archeology I could go into RIGHT NOW about how the Hebrews are basically the Canaanites. They branched off and became really seperate later. But the Hebrews writing and language stems from the Canaanite and El is the top of the Canaanite pantheon. His name means "god" too in Canaanite. His consort was Ellat or "goddess" who also took the name Asherah.

Later, Yahweh, a desert deity, syncretized with El. In a Hosea passage Yahweh tells Hosea he is Asherah and Anat. Two Canaanite deities. Looking into archeology scholars found pots with words on them "May Yahweh and his Asherah bless you."

The ancient Hebrews kept worshiping goddesses for centuries. Asherah and Anath were two of the most popular of them. Here, we have evidence of two things:

1. God is for the worship of both of them

2. Conferring to God being supposedly both male and female, God is saying that he is both Yahweh and Asherah. As history has clearly showed God's female side became wiped out by over zealous priests. God's female side only manifests itself in Sheikinah in Judaism or his female presence and later in Jewish mysticism as the Matronit. Here in ancient Hebrew lore we have Asherah.

So there is some fodder for you folks to get excited and chat about. If anyone would like more information on the subject, please check out the book the Hebrew Goddess by R.Patai.

Thanks!