Goddess

**Goddess**, also called **Asherah**, is the co-supreme sovereign of creation and an unseen supporting character in the *Divine Comedy*.

She was the wife of God, mother of the angels, and the creator of the Elohim. Alongside God, She is credited with having created all existence and brought it to its proper and complete form with Her children. However, after several misconducts in the way God was managing Heaven (especially their children) Goddess left Her home, husband, and Her children. It is unknown where She now resides but is mentioned several times and serves as an unseen supporting character.

## History

### Background

Goddess and God were said to have woken up from nothingness and according to Belphegor they made love after "looking and strolling around nothingness" and were "bored playing Go Fish". Their union resulted in what would be called the Big Bang. However, everything was a mess and they decided to create helpers in the form of angels. The first five that came to be were Michael, Lucifer, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel which were then followed by Samael and innumerable other angels. Goddess suggested to God that their children could perhaps paint a clearer picture of creation through song to which He agreed with.

God then instructed His children to begin the proper construction of all things through music which is known as the Genesis Jam or the Jam. One by one the angels begin to sing and these creative musical elaborations only gradually, through exposure to each other, become collaborative. Goddess was the lead singer of the choir while God was the conductors as they guided the angels like instruments using their innate divine power to shape and fashion the physical and the immaterial. From what they fashion with their music they would govern in the future. The greatest among them of course was Lucifer as his singing and music is quite noticeable even amongst the innumerable choirs of angels.

### Creation and Heaven

As the music reached its peak, God literally ended it on a 'banger' as He clapped his hands to temper the reverberating music notes of creation which then gave way the modelling of all that there is, and no longer was it void. When the music was done, God and Goddess showed their children the end result of their work while telling them that the aspects that now take hold and give meaning to creation would be associated to a particular angel that sung the thematics of said aspect during the Jam. God and Goddess then had their children go out to both explore and further help in the continuing development of the universe all the while He builds what would be known as Heaven.

After building their 'family house' the two decided to plant a tree in the garden which would come to be known as the Tree of Life with the tree acting as the centerpoint of all creation and what keeps everything ahold of one another and in balance. Goddess would be responsible in caring for the Tree of Life as it was Her 'own personal bonsai tree' that people show off in their homes according to Lucifer.

### Leaving the Family

At an unspecified point in time, Goddess would create a separate set of divine beings called the Elohim (or gods with a small 'g') to help fill in certain positions, or aspects in this case, within the universe's management areas.

Eons would follow, and God started focusing on a new project, humanity. God's project caused Goddess to become distant, and soon both she and her husband began to neglect their family as they would be focusing more on their responsibilities, however, Goddess was more proactive with Her children, especially Lucifer since he and God would get into frequent arguments resulting in Lucifer running to his Mother for comfort.

God's treatment of Lucifer culminated in the latter lashing out by rebelling against his father. Angered by Lucifer's rebellion, God wanted to destroy him, but His wife convinced Him to give Lucifer a "time out". However, She did not account nor agree for the fact that Lucifer would be eternally banished to a dark realm where the light of Heaven never shone. This action angered Her so much that She nearly made Heaven collapse from Her scorn and left all together. Her anger and abandonment caused Her family to fall into disarray with God falling into depression and the angels longing for Her presence.

### Legacy

The Elohim would declare that they would rule over humanity in honor of Goddess as they distrusted the way God would rule over them from seeing how He manages everything. Instead of punishing them, God let them have their way to see the results they bring. In the meantime, despite Her absence, it is implied that She still keeps a watchful eye on Her family and discreetly guides Her children when they are lost.

## Trivia

* The name "**Asherah**" is derived from an ancient Semitic fertility goddess.
* According to God, She likes her soufflés to be "perfectly risen."
* Lailah states that God made man and woman in His and Goddess' image but She was not the least bit impressed. In addition, whereas God sees them as perfect Goddess only saw them as "mock-up" figurines.
* Goddess' favorite drink are frappuccinos, a trait she passed down to Her granddaughter Charlie.
* She is quite fond of olives.
	+ According to Lucifer, She and God once got into a spat over whether or not olives should be placed on pizza.
* Goddess' singing can sometimes be heard throughout regions of the universe and is described as "Jazz Blues cooled into cosmic background radiation" then formed as radio waves.
* Goddess is said to have a stag motif as some of the imagery inside the Empyrean depict her with branch-like horns.
	+ This is in reference to Her being a tree goddess in Canaanite religion.