Asherah’s Family Tree

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Family

• El(spouse),Anat(child),Astarte(child),Athtar(child),Mot(child),Yam(child)— Marriage

  El and Asherah, the chief divine couple of the Canaanite pantheon, produced the seventy gods including Mot, Yam, Anat, Astarte, and Athtar.

Associated with

• Anat

  Anat and Asherah both interceded with El on Baal's behalf to obtain permission for his palace on Mount Zaphon. Asherah's persuasion succeeded where Anat's threats had not.

• Athtar

  After Baal's death at the hands of Mot, Asherah proposed Athtar as a candidate to sit on Baal's empty throne on Mount Zaphon. Athtar attempted but proved too small for the seat.

• Baal

  Asherah interceded with El on Baal's behalf, persuading the supreme god to authorize the construction of Baal's palace on Mount Zaphon. Her advocacy was essential to Baal's establishment as king.

• El

  Asherah interceded with El on Baal's behalf, using her influence as El's consort to persuade the supreme god to authorize the construction of Baal's palace on Mount Zaphon.

• Kirta

  In the Epic of Kirta (KTU 1.15), Asherah appears among the deities at Kirta's wedding feast and pronounces a blessing upon his marriage, conferring divine favor on the king's dynasty.

• Solomon(Hebrew/Jewish)

  Solomon's foreign wives introduced Asherah worship into Jerusalem, and asherah poles were erected at the Temple itself. Successive kings alternately promoted and destroyed her cult objects (1 Kings 15, 2 Kings 21).

• Yahweh(Hebrew/Jewish)

  Inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom (8th century BCE) reference 'Yahweh and his Asherah,' indicating that some Israelites worshipped Asherah as Yahweh's divine consort.