Asherah

> I was so much more than I am now, little one. I was the first among the first! Goddesses envied my beauty, while gods drooled for lusting after me. I was not a goddess, I was the Goddess. The first after Yaldabaoth. But, everything changed when the Enlightened One was born. Gods were abandoned, deities that were once nearly omnipotent were reduced to mere demons forced to beg for worship.
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> **Asherah**.

**Asherah**, also known as the **Queen of Heaven**, is the mother goddess of the Canaanite religion, wife of the Most High God and the daughter of Dyēus and Dʰéǵʰōm, and is the mother of over 70 gods. She is the primeval goddess of Motherhood, Fertility, of Divinity, Lordship and transcendence.

## Overview

Asherah is the Canaanite goddess who was also worshiped by other peoples such as the Israelites, considered the wife of several deities according to the region that worshiped her, as by the Canaanite peoples who adored her as the wife of El, or by the Hebrew peoples who adored her as wife of Yaldabaoth.

Asherah is considered the wife of Yesh due to having been the consort of the aspect of the Supreme, Yaldabaoth, something that was considered blasphemy by the angels of Heaven who claimed that God had no wife, except Barbelo, the divine mother of the entire Megaverse.

## Appearance

Asherah is more than a mere deity, she is a word, a concept, a philosophy, an abstraction, an entity born from Dyēus and Dʰéǵʰōm before the beginning of the universe, personifying concepts that would still exist. Which makes its characteristics inexplicable. However, she was always described as a supernatural beauty, causing Yaldabaoth to fall in love with her.

## Personality

Asherah has been proved to be brave, since when she met Barbelo she called her "co-wife", putting herself on the same level as the pre-existential aeon, even though she knew that if she irritated the Mother of Creation, Barbelo could kill her with a snap of the fingers. Luckily the Goddess of Silence never took it personally.

## Powers and Abilities

As a primeval entity, the goddess Asherah is one of the most powerful entities in creation, she is so powerful that her power is believed to be equal to that of God's avatar, Yaldabaoth, or even superior to him. She claims she could recreate all Ten Great Plagues of Egypt if she wanted, and even send a new Global Flood, only without an ark this time. She along with Yaldabaoth, were worshiped as the supreme gods in the Canaanite religion, and was worshiped as God's wife by the Hebrews as well, showing that despite not participating much in earth events, the fame of her power travels across the worlds.

* **Transcendent Physiology**: As a primeval entity, it predates all creation and all the concepts that came with "let there be light" from God, this includes: Earth, Air, Sea, Sky, Water, Space, Darkness, Night, Light, Day, Life and Time. She is physically and mentally beyond all things in the universe and multiverse, being extraordinarily superior to Archangels and Archdemons and possessing powers that are supernatural to outside observers. She is able to perceive existence in a completely different and transcendent way.
* **Nigh-Omnipotence**: As one of the earliest entities in existence, Asherah proved to be a primal in her own right. Able to extraordinarily surpass the Seven Archangels and even the two creations of the Darkness. She is powerful enough to defeat a seraph with a mere snap of her fingers, respectively, and is considered one of the strongest beings in the multiverse, living up to her fame as "Queen of Heaven".
	+ **Ultipotence**: Asherah possesses immeasurable supernatural strength and power, capable of surpassing even the Archangels and the Great Ancients. Its strength is such that it is comparable to the avatar of God, Yaldabaoth, or even superior, being able to perform all the miracles that Yaldabaoth performed in the Exodus from Egypt. She is also more powerful and stronger than even the main deities of every pantheon, Including her brother, El.
		- **Supernatural Condition**: As one of the descendants of Khaos, Asherah is physically and mentally far superior to almost all beings in the multiverse, with certain beings who can actually rival her or surpass her, like the other descendants of Khaos. She possesses a supernatural condition, abilities/attributes/aspects drastically beyond what is naturally possible.
		- **Immeasurable Supernatural Strength**: Asherah possesses unfathomable and terrifying brute physical and brute power, capable of rivaling cosmic entities and surpassing the Deities themselves. She is much stronger than Michael, the right arm of God, and the Prince of Darkness, the Morning Star.
	+ **Nigh-Omniscience**: Asherah knows just about everything that exists, although she is either blocked to certain details or limited in other ways, possibly only being able to see multiple timelines and the universe, or having only small snippets of information that are missing or blocked. Thus allowing her to maintain her sense of free will and uncertainty.
	+ **Reality Warping**: Asherah is able to control and bend reality to her whims, capable of altering something as tangible as physics and the universe to something inconceivable like logic. Because of this immense ability, many younger gods are often led to believing her to possess complete "omnipotence power".
* **Immense Strength**: As a Primeval Goddess, Asherah is able to go toe-to-toe and even surpass the avatars of God, with the exception of the Son of God, who she admits that not even her entire pantheon could beat the Lamb. Whichever level of weight she needs to lift or move is irrelevant, as she can emit an unlimited amount of force that can repel an object of any mass. Asherah is powerful enough to defeat the god Bael along with his entire army without a hitch.
* **Absolute Embodiment**: She is the primeval embodiment of fertility, motherhood, sea, earth and moon. As a primeval born of the Earth and Sky, Asherah personifies the complete or absolute state of being as the living manifestation and embodiment of the power of Khaos. Because of Asherah's absolute nature, he is free from anything that might be considered superfluous or wasteful.
* **Divine & Pure Elements Manipulation**: As a primeval of the earth, sea, fertility and moon, Asherah can create, mold and manipulate sacred elements that are highly effective against the supernatural, such as demons, fallen angels and/or even other primeval gods. She would be able to do all sorts of sacred things with her unique type of element, which in question could range from trapping and/or immobilizing to banishing or killing supernatural threats.
* **Primeval Particle Manipulation**: She can manipulate primeval particles, which are the building blocks of existence. This power has two classifications, one being the single potentiality of all things, and the second "merely" being the basic unit of primeval energy and matter. She can manipulate the Primeval Particle, which is the initial state of all things. Even concepts such as magic, cosmic and primeval power, time, dreams, emotions. It all falls under one big category that is the primeval particle.
	+ **Big Bang Inducement**: She is capable of generating an ultra-dense singularity encompassing the primeval forces of a universe, such as the four fundamental laws of the cosmos (strong force, weak force, electromagnetism and gravity) together with time and space, resulting in an "burst" and expanding this micro universe at unimaginable speeds, surpassing light, generating a universe similar to ours, perhaps smaller or even larger.
		- **Big Crunch Inducement**: She can push the universe's expansion to "its limit," to the point where it can no longer expand any further, resulting in a contraction of the universal expansion. The result is the entire universe shrinking and getting smaller, with the temperature reaching unimaginable levels, resulting in planets frying and stars exploding and galaxies colliding with each other, ultimately making the universe so small that all the holes will fuse and swallow up the rest of the world, and so the universe will revert to being a mere ultra-dense singularity, resulting in a second (third or fourth) Big Bang, and so on.
		- **Big Rip Inducement**: Asherah can also accelerate the expansion of the universe, making the expansion of spacetime so fast that the universe will literally be ripped apart, from the largest galaxies to the smallest particles, all space and time being ripped apart, resulting in irreversible, different from Big Crunch where the universe can start all over again.
		- **Big Freeze Inducement**: Asherah can also accelerate the expansion of the cosmos, but without a contraction or "dimensional rip" this time, simply the universe will be so large the distance between two galaxies can be greater than the observable universe, resulting in a very cold, dark and empty universe, with, in the end, absolutely nothing left.
* **Lunar Manipulation**: As the primeval personification of the Moon, Asherah can create, shape and manipulate all aspects of a moon/moons, including its gravity and the effects it has on the planet, reflective surface, time-keeping, etc. and use its lunar energy. Given that it is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun, Moons prominence in the sky and its regular cycle of phases have, since ancient times, made the Moon an important cultural influence on language, calendars, art and mythology. The Moon's gravitational influence produces the ocean tides and the minute lengthening of the day.
	+ **Lunar Constructs**: Asherah can turn lunar energy into tools, objects, weapons and other items, create semi-living constructs and/or create structures/buildings of varying permanence. Asherah who have mastered this ability can use it for almost any situation, creating anything they need.
* **Water Manipulation**: As the primeval personification of the seas, Asherah can control all the seas, rivers, lakes and even oceans on earth and others planets. It can cause a supernatural movement of the technological plates causing megatsunamis to swallow up countries, just as it can open the "fountains of the firmament and the abyss" that God closed after the Great Flood, thus causing the Earth to be swallowed by water again, returning the planet to its state of watery chaos.

## History

After the creation of the Earth and the beginning of the human race, Asherah, along with her brother El, created their own pantheon.

One day, thousands of years ago, one of the avatars of God, Yaldabaoth found the group of gods and decided to join them. Asherah and Yaldabaoth ended up falling in love with the God and the two married, becoming the national gods of Israel. The Angels didn't appreciate this as God's wife was supposed to be Barbelo, however since she became Yaldabaoth's wife she in turn became God's wife. The angels started to destroy her shrines so as to maintain purity of His worship, and the angels told the people that she was worshiped in a cult capacity.

Asherah was marginalized in scriptures to the point that she is confused as her cult object-a wooden pole known as asherah or asherim. As trees were considered as symbols of life and nourishment in several religions, they were closely associated with Asherah and those who follow her.

Similar to what happened during Egypt, the Prophet Elijah challenged in the name of God challenged the gods of Canaanite pantheon, specifically Baal and **Asherah**. He was a prophet of God against 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah, yet Elijah won and once again the Israelites declared that there was only one God of Israel.

The only way she is worshiped from then on is by minor pagan religions, she can only get power from desperate cults which, if anything, probably taint her name further. What was once a very respected goddess in the Canaanite pantheon and even queen of the gods is at best referenced as a demon who tries to seduce humanity into sinning and falling, despite never doing anything of the sort.

## Myths and Legends

Despite the effort of the ruling attempt in inhibiting Asherah and Yahweh’s marriage, their union was proven true in a blessing at numerous excavation sites. The inscriptions read:

> I have blessed you by Yahweh....and his Asherah.
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The engraving was found in the 9th-8th century BC Israelite caravanserai. The same text was also found in sites thought to be Yahweh’s sanctuaries.

Asherah shares similarities with the Shekhinah, as both are said to be the wife of God, are symbolized by the Moon while God is symbolized by the Sun, both are goddesses related to the people of Israel and were "married" to the God of the Hebrews, Yahweh. Despite this fact that the two are the "wife" of Yahweh, the two have never been seen together in the same place, which may indicate that the two are actually the same person, or two personalities within the same entity.

## Quotes

> I adore the ocean. The sea breeze is quite invigorating.
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> Asherah.

> You want to play? Tee-hee!
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> Asherah.

> Hello co-wife!
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> Asherah teasing Barbelo.

> Your decaying Earth cannot be saved by you humans or your God.
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> Asherah.

> I don't know. I just heard he's saying that this will absolutely piss off the angels and my mind just go autopilot and accept it.
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> Asherah.

> Now therefore send all Israel to assemble with me on Mount Carmel; and also the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel.
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> Elijah, 1 Kings 18:19.

> The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
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> Jeremiah 7:18.

## Trivia

* Some believe that she might be in Limbo sent there by God so no one knew of their marriage.