Anath was the sister of Baal Hadad and the daughter of Asherah in Canaanite mythology, and was identified with Astarte (Hebrew, Ashtoreth). The patriarchal religious leaders divided the original Great Mother Goddess into her aspects to weaken her, but worshippers refused to see anything other than the Great Mother. Anath, Astarte and Asherah were seen as the same. I found archaeology shows Israelites worshipped a goddess whose spouse was Baal and sometimes called Yehouah. Was the old Hebrew goddess personified as Zion, the city of Jerusalem? Possibly. The land and people appeared in place of Asherah as the betrothed of God Which is easy to recognize echoes of the book of Revelation in reference to the bride of Christ.BirdofFreedom wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:31 amAstarte/Asherah were part of the Canaanite pantheon, as for jews worshiping Astarte well i'm not aware of that.Ipsissimus83 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:31 amTrue I am aware that Semitism doesn't mean Jewish but Asherah is a Hebrew goddess . All Jews (descendants of Judah) are Israelites (descendants of Jacob) and are also Hebrews (descendants of Abraham). Indicating that the Jew comes from the Hebrew, father Abraham. Now if you want to get technical, Abraham isn't even real. So the exiled Jews/Hebrews were probably worshipping the goddess that is possibly supposed to be Inanna or a section of jews or Hebrews wanted to infiltrate the existing pagan customs and religion in order to bring it down. So exactly what the fuck happened.BirdofFreedom wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:13 am
I did read it, thing is there's a lot of corrupted information out there, which is why i said no one can really say for sure.
Also Semitic doesn't always mean jewish/hebrew.
As for the the jos having her rule the 6th, well i'm not aware of that, the jos has her associated with Venus which rules the Throat chakra.
Both Asherah and Innana have similar symbolisms and themes.
But Asherah being a 'Semitic' goddess doesn't necessarily make her hebrew/jewish.
It's a tricky situation into consideration of what the JoS is worshipping. Jewish god or not.
This is a n interesting thread to talk about this.
For the most part i doubt they would, considering in the bible 'god' forbids them worshiping any other god.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/as ... #pid-16754
It's debated whether the Hebrews worshipped Her or not, at least the exiled Jews/Hebrews probably did. So yeah it's been a debate because the goal is to disconnect from JoS and just admit we don't really know who the hell they are in touch with. Astaroth in the Goetia is a corruption of Astarte because of the spelling of the name. I think I read somewhere it means "shame" in hebrew
I want to talk about Astaroth as a male demon in the Goetia. The name appears as Attar (Aramaic), Athtar (South Arabia), Astar (Aksum), Ashtar (Moab), Aṯtar (Ugarit) and Ištar in Akkadian. In both genders, Aṯtar is identified with the planet Venus, the morning and evening star, in some manifestations of Semitic mythology. The deity is also connected to the Hellenistic goddess Astarte. It appears that Astaroth had both genders and could appear as either. Once again JoS needs to do more research.
Astaroth is Attar and known in south Arabia.