Asherah
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
the Levant
- Canaanite
Mother goddess of the Canaanites, represented by a wooden pole beside an altar. Inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud bless people by "Yahweh and his Asherah", which is not what the later editors wanted preserved.
Known for
- the sacred pole
- blessed alongside Yahweh in inscriptions
- a goddess later editors removed
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.