GOD's Secret Wife | Asherah
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- Опубліковано 20 лис 2021
- Hey Hunters.
So me and the lovely @HistoryWithKayleigh had a great zoom chat last week and it made me start researching ancient Goddesses.
Then I discovered that historically the God of Israel (Judaism/Christianity/Islam) originally HAD A WIFE. And she was deliberately erased from memory. Edited out of the bible...almost.
Modern archeological finds create a very solid picture of how important she used to be before the story got rewritten...
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The bible has been redacted/ edited. 24 books are referenced but not included and 36 books have been edited (shortened). I believe Ashera was Inanna in the Sumerian clay tablets of creation. Stories of ancient history are so amazing to discover.
There are more "bibles" than you could begin to imagine. Multiply those numbers by themselves and you still won't get close with the way different people "interpret" the numerous different versions of translations, ect. What we need to do is get the actual original unadulterated truths. Where did everything actually come from? More awareness needs brought towards this issue regardless of what it does to the financial stability of Christianity. Btw, I thought "Jesus" was against profit? Oh, they are fucking hypocritical losers.
Add in the Story of "The Tower of Babel", which creates different Languages, and it makes you wonder if each Mythology is/was connected. Same Stories, differently languages. Confusion by tongue.
Also the Sumerarian writing are often completely ignored...
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@@wasimhashmi446 Did not have anything to do with it, despite what we have learned.
Asherah has come home! Thank you for showing her a light along the dark path. She loves you so much. Glory to God!
YES! Your closing thought about how she isn't in our minds is so important. I am a student of religion and found myself shutting down the draw toward the male form of God and it has been hard - we have been taught to be this way for 2000 years or more! I have struggled with it. I am not a Catholic, but I started repeating the Mary prayer A LOT. Also, I'm a crazy dreamer and learn things in them and had a chat with Mary one night as I went to bed, asking her for a dream. I had a dream! I dreamed of being in a 2 story stone building and it sounded like an ancient giant was coming near and it said one word, "Al-lat". I woke up immediately and looked up the word - it is the female form of God - or Goddess. From wikipedia "Al-Lat was used as a title for the goddess Asherah". Mary was saying, "don't stop here, honey, Goddess has been alive as long as God."
Recently, looking at some Gnostic works I learned of Barbelo - who is said a) to been the first thing and that created god and Jesus or b) an androgynous being who created God and Sophia... Oh, and Al'lat has a lion. 😍
Our world is soooooooo out of balance and the Goddess, no matter what you call her we need to remember Her.
I'm pretty sure Barbelo, Ashera, and Al'lat are the same being - and some say Barbelo is Mary - the mother of Jesus. Also, if you are reading the Bible in Hebrew, the Holy Spirit is feminine.
I'd love to see you delve more into this and talk about that Goddess and get her in our heads and hearts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Lat
Have you read 'When God was a Woman' by Merlin Stone? It talks about how the Mother Goddess was erased by the Abrahamic religions. It's so nice to read that she is still thriving even through everything they tried to do to silence & erase her.
Or there are several books by Jean Shinoda Bolen where she talks about various goddesses & the divine feminine within. Really interesting stuff!
YES!
This is AMAZING! What an experience...transforming your mind literally 🧡❤🧡 and mine! this needs to be added back into religion, and taught to everyone. our entire world would change so much and for the better, i think more poeple would be flocking back to religion instead of away....
it's cool how Mary cult kept this "female God" thing going in mainstream all these centuries :)
@@Selene13zz Yes I have - I read it back when I was trying to dive into the Mother and develop some sort of attachment.
The content continues to be fresh, energetic and interesting !
Thank you.
I once asked my good friend who is a Mormon why they believe in the family unit and she told me coz they believe that we are all one family with a God Father and Goddess Mother or the word they call them Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother. That was the 1st time I’ve had about that concept
My family is mormon and, honestly, Heavenly Mother was my saving grace. Their mythos includes her only because they believe the gods are physical beings who ascended from mortals, so you have to have both bi-gendered parents to make new spirits & they get to have their own world to lord over. The concept is cool on the surface but they purposefully obscure what HM is like because they don't want to give any power to her or to women (using the excuse "she's to sacred to mention" which is bullshit). When I left I started reading about all the other goddesses through the ages & other cultures and was blown away with how cool they were, as well as diverse in their aspects. I wish they would teach their kids more about HM and incorporate some of these awesome ideas.
@@Selene13zz It's because next to nothing has been recriminations about Her. Heavenly Father controls the information, not us. If he reveals it, we'll teach it.
That's what you did? You asked someone why they believe in the family unit?
@@tomsbeststuff2134 I sure hope you're being sarcastic but if you aren't.... BARF!
You need to do a wee bit more investigation into pre-Abrahamic history, dear Tom. If he's the only one to control the information, then he's an asshole. Just saying.
@@jamesbael6255 There's nothing wrong with exploring and questioning our justifications for anything, even something that is widely considered inherently good in the modern age, such as the family unit. For a lot of human history, we did not prioritize the family unit.
I find it interesting that she’s known as the goddess of snakes, and in the Bible the serpent and the woman was supposedly responsible for the fall of man
Would make for an interesting twist wouldn't it? The Serpent in Eden, Satan (the Adversary), being the wife of God. In fact it almost makes sense considering the story of Lucifer's fall: jealous of humanity because of God's great love for them. A wife jealous of her husband's mistress. Would also have some similarity to the relationship between Zeus and Hera too
@@blakenelson8202 Or perhaps only Satan's immediate attempted infiltration of the church. Perhaps the addition of God's "wife" was the original edit, eventually edited back out. If the bible is directly from God it wouldn't surprise me if it had a sort of immune system, editing back and forth until it reaches a general baseline.
Considering the time and jumps between multiple cultures, it hasn't changed all that much.
According to scripture, marriage is the joining of two into one. Originally it's also stated that God was all there was in the beginning - it makes no sense for an already complete and singular God to have had a wife even in that context.
Moreover, it's written that woman was created from man, and man from the clay in God's image. Woman would have also just been made from the clay if God had a spouse.
They also had a pole they worshipped in the desert with snakes on it....ironically it was commanded that I they were bit by snakes, to look upon the pole and they would be spared.
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Ah, yes, good catch. But all that was also probably electromagnetic discharges seeming to emanate from Venus before she was sent screaming past Earth as a comet.
I don't know if people on this channel are familiar with what I just said.
I can’t believe I’m just NOW finding out about you! Great videos. Thank you so much for your work!
This is a great video, very informative and entertaining. I love your energy. Absolutely nuts she was erased. Let’s bring her back!
Oooooh I'm so excited! 😍
We had such a fun chat! We always talk about a lot more than we set out do😂
@History with Kayleigh Ahh... about time you guys did another collab... 👍
@@113A ha thanks 😉
@History with Kayleigh Always good to hear new insights (non mainstream) 😎... I’m sure it’ll be interesting .
Oooh! Now I have a migraine. My poor focused one track male brain has been jerked down multiple spontaneous non-associated threads by not one, but two highly functional female brains. I am surprised that no commenter to date touched upon your statements of the male vs female brain, functionally. There is actually quite a bit on this in cellular biology, physiology, cognition and psychology to name the key fields of study. There is also a ton on bias pushing both ways on any functional subject you care to name.
As to if/when/how god(S) had a wife....this is way, way above my pay grade. I yield to higher authority.
A new Nickname for Jahannah! It would be great if Asherah and Kayleigh did a vid once a week or every 2 weeks I always learn something and they are fun
I always found it interesting how Native Americans retain a matriarch genealogy tree. One of the most important aspects was to maintain diverse bloodlines. They didn't want to deal with incest and those plausible outcomes.
Matrilineal*
Keep it coming! Thank you 🙏🏻
Followed you here from Jegaysus--love your videos and subscribed. I've learned so much! Thank you!
I always say, God created the Earth. And on the 7th day, He Rested. On the 8th Day God's wife asked him, wth are you doing?
Do you know how and why he rested? There is significance to everything
Lol on the 8th day the Goddess started cleaning up his mess, and she is still working at it lol
Lol y’all are dumb turning this into a sexist thing. Y’all just revel in the thought that “there was a goddess too” right?
Blasphemy
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Oooooh my Goddess! Love your content and, even more, how you deliver it. Great work! 🎂
Great content. Have enjoyed both your videos, watching you talk was cool.
Amazing! Love your work 💖
Another thing while I'm thinking about it. No one has ever noticed there is always two different "Gods"? First one benovlent, loving, mercyful, caring, wanting to help and teach mankind. Usually associated with water, and creation of life. The second jealous, vengeful, punishing, destructive. Usually associated with the sky, heavens, lightning and thunder. Most of the time they are depicted as brothers or siblings in some way shape or form. Always seems to be two "Gods" of equal importance and power. Enki-Enlil, Poseidon - Zues, Osiris - Set, and in the old testament bible two separate distinct personalities "somehow merged into one God with a split personality" I believe it's the same for the Aztec and Nordic Gods, but don't quote me on that. The God of creation always has a female associated with him, and he always gets into a conflict with the his sibling or an advisory over mankind. It like a repeating theme globally. Tell me no one has ever noticed that? I think it all originates from the same source and got changed and adapted by different cultures. In fact in the book ok Enki there is a part where one of Enki's son's is praised by Anu, Enki and Enlil's father and the other was not. So the son who wasnt praised by Anu kills his brother who was. As punishment he had a mark placed upon his face that he and all his offspring would bare, so everyone would recognize him and then he was banished from the cities. Mentions something about putting him to sleep and Enki doing something to him so that he nor any of his offspring would be able to grow facial hair. This story sound vaguely fimaliar? Cain and Able perhaps? My point is one origin story that has been adapted names changed some things forgotten, omitted, or lost, but their all talking about the same beings and same events. Sure the names where changed to match their cultures, lifestyles etc. but some of the base parts are always the same.
Gnostics use the concept of the Demiurge who is the malevolent, vengeful god of the Old Testament and creator of the material world. Separate from the true God. The Demiurge is the artist...the creative...who created the world. It's also a concept in Platonism. This idea works well with our Universe being a simulation, running on an advanced Quantum computer. Our creator isn't the true God, but certainly has god-like powers who has a game avatar and can break the game physics along with the power to turn off the simulation anytime they want.
@@asimian8500 Yea I'm not really big on theology as its a sensitive subject for many people. People have a right to believe whatever they want. I was just pointing out similarities that I had noticed between the ancient beliefs.
@@joeclymer9951 I understand. Your observation is spot on and cultures of the past have also had similar thoughts. The only thing I’m doing is bringing up what the Gnostics and Platonists believed. The idea of the Demiurge as the malevolent creator of the material world and the idea of a true God separate from this answers the question of why is there evil in the world. Another explanation of evil is that this is not the true world but purgatory where evil and suffering is allowed. The question of why evil is allowed is a fundamental argument against a just and loving god or God. The Demiurge is one resolution.
Not so much theology, but I have never been convinced by Thomas Aquinas’s arguments about why evil exists in his magnum opus Summa Theologica. It’s my opinion that the concept of the Demiurge is the most rational and convincing explanation.
@@asimian8500 No worries.
Joseph Campbell pointed this out decades ago in a concept called Monomyth. Check it out!
Your wonderful!
What amazes me is how the Trinity doctrine got distorted by ignoring the natural sequence of the Family unit of Father, Mother, and Son! By reducing the Mother to a "force" or "spirit" they have managed to erase the feminine aspect of God.
Yeah like take the cultural politics out of it, makes so much more sense for the Devine family unit.
The Trinity isn't a divine family...
Mary is everything Asherah was. Nothing has changed.
That's the original problem that the Trinity aspect is man made. Since the thought of a trinity exist then these types of theory's become possible. But if you believe that God is One with no partners you would see that this was also an innovation. God has no gender. How can something that's basically existence itself have a gender?
People used to compare what they experience and know from their surroundings to try and explain things when they had no answer. That's why they believed that since they called God the Father then it would make sense to give him a concert. These are things that Jewish people try to hide from their past. They try to uphold the whole Chosen people thing and try to erase their past. Also just a FYI I'm not antisemitic.
@@Stonezster Ashera is a problem for christianity 1 in order for God to produce jesus he'd break one of his own rules , jesus would be born out of adulatory and god would have himself sinned ( according to himself ) you cant expect any people to follow laws of God if god himself does not , so yes Mary replaces her in that respect or christianity was doomed from the start ( just my take on it )
Fantastic content ❤ love your delivery x
I love your work, you are so animated it is wonderful to learn from you. Please keep it up, love us all. Cheers C
This channel is great.. really good balance of information and light hearted humour to keep people engaged.. v talented 👏
this was awesome!! its about time people started talking about this part of religion. people need to know this stuff!!!
It's another god. It's not talking about the Jewish or Christian GOD.
@@gabrielhughes8221 Yahweh is the Christian God, and Asherah is his wife. So it is about Christianity
@@emilyroberts5388 No it isn't, asherah is a paganism belief that got put in christianity belief.
@@emilyroberts5388 It so sad that people like you actually believe that Almighty God have a wife or need a wife for that matter. 🙄😏🤦♂️ smh....
He isn't the same as Zeus, Odin and etcetera
@@gabrielhughes8221 who do you think the Holy ghost is?
I had never heard of Asherah before today so thank you so much ❤ love your videos x
"Brother man Ashtorah is nothing but a high ranking demon. Don't believe the hype 😂😂😂
shes been nice to me, well her daughters look man i dont know who is who they just give me short cuts for some reason, 18 days full on beyon m 30ish masters not you guy at venice beach and ted cruz@@ericneely-nt7qb
@@ericneely-nt7qbso is Yahweh....so whats your point....
@@ericneely-nt7qbasherah is either devil or god not a demon. The old testament God not the new😊. a demon can't do what she do. There are some strong demons but no way they can do half of what she can do. That's why her exhusband keeps trolling her he can't exist without her. He knows her every move every fart.. Every breath every death. When y'all fall don't ask for her help call on yahweh
I enjoy all your videos! Fantastic work, Thank You!
I knew it! In my soul. Even as a kid I was like, Y do they keep leaving out the Goddess. Mother and Father
The title reminds me of a monty python scene from Life of Brian. “He had a wife you know……”.
Most passionate video you've done, also Kaliegh showed a new side not usual for her talks. Imagining if we had a balanced male/female or female/male society for the past 2,000 years is very thought provoking. With women out performing men in college education these days we may see the sacred feminine rise again in society. To have a nurturing society that takes care of its poorest instead of always preparing for war is a world I would like to live in. The idea that a balanced female/male world would reduce wars is worth examining. When men lay dying on a battlefield they often call for their mothers who would do their best not to send their children to war.
Read about this in the Neal Stephenson novel "Snowcrash“. Ancient Sumerian history was mentioned multiple times and seemed very accurate.
Snowcrash was a great read man
Wow! I am so stoked I find your channel!
You go girl ... the truth is worth the time and effort. May You Stay Well. Happy and Keep Your Integrity.
This changes my whole perspective on this. And yes this makes me so mad. Thank you for talking about this! I want more people seeing and hearing this! 🙏🏻💕😭
You are so INSANELY animated!!!! So much fun to watch and listen to. I love history... but it can be BORING. :-)
I would like to see her on TV
maybe doing the news HER way
get a room..by yo self
@@deadguy361well she is, she made this entertaining and very interesting and that wasn’t a sexual innuendos
Thank you for this ❤️🔥🙏
Thank you for sharing your content. Very interesting topic. (By the way, you have a very cute smile.)
There was a documentary many decades ago where archaeologists in the Middle East had found buried, many clay figurines that looked not much more complicated than Aardman's Morph character and after finding so many 'Asherah' figurines had come to the conclusion that many homes were still praying to polytheism, with Asherah on equal footing side by side with Yahweh.
"The Hebrew Goddess" by Raphael Patai
I don't understand why you keep insisting Asherah was "redacted" from the bible. She was a canaanite/phoenician goddess that was the consort of EL and the mother of Baal (sometimes also his consort). She is mentioned, or her poles/trees, dozens of times in the Old Testament and is often used as an example of the Israelites worshipping foreign gods and condemnation of the practice. Monotheism was not universal among the Israelites until later and the OT often speaks of them worshipping foreign gods from the surrounding cultures. It's often why they are punished as a people and why many Prophets were sent to condemn the practice. This is all in the Bible.
Just because you are unaware of something doesn't necessarily mean it was hidden from you or "redacted" it might just mean you weren't well versed enough in the subject to know of it. Excellent video though as always.
All correct, and well put. But no, not an excellent video. An excellent video on the topic wouldn't have made misleading assertions. While it is true that none of the biblical authors ever describe Asherah/Ashteroth/etc as the consort of YWH or YHWH, she's alluded to critically a number of times as part of a polemic against idol worship.
Aren’t you all correct? While Ashera is mentioned there were verses where the translations left the name out, she showed them in the clip with the Hebrew version next to the English version.
@@curbroadshow It is never correct to presume, and the whole notion that the Hebrew people at any stage in their history believed Asherah to be the wife/consort of YHW/YHWH follows from a single informal inscription to the effect. Since it is not known who inscribed it, why, or what exactly they meant by it, no, there are no theological conclusions which can be drawn from it.
I believe the Golden Calf was Hathor, which they had worshipped in Egypt
@@kendee4421 I appreciate your ability to make that connection, but this assumes that the Exodus story accurately represents an actual event, which for a number of reasons is quite doubtful. The site in Arabia now most identified with the "golden calf" narrative does, despite its now terribly arid aspect, contain a large flat rock marked up with horned (bovine) pictographs ...and it has been proven that Arabia was once pastoral enough to accommodate cattle. My point is, what seems more likely than not (to me) is that the Exodus narrative was built around known and indeed ancient landmarks in the same way "Lot's wife" still exists as a towering rock.
Extremely informative and interesting. The more I learn from ancient civilizations the more I think they were more advanced in the human aspect. Treating both man and female equal.
I like to think that God and his wife broke up and took his anger on telling the people to only worship him as a god and no one else and mold the people to have men on top and give the men power
Awesome vid! Thank you again…..
A good book to read is "When God was a woman" by Merlin Stone It will open your eyes about how the Goddess was erased from history. I'm a Catholic and for me Mary was always a Goddess, honestly she was the only figure that resonated with me. From what I've read and studied she was also said to represent Isis and Osiris. The Romans incorporated aspects of slaves religions so that they would feel more comfortable. Asherah is also hiding in pagan practices. It's believed that the maypole is actually a way to have continued the celebration of Asherah for she was also worshipped as the sacred tree. My studies led me to become an eclectic pagan with a focus on the Goddess (in all her emenations) another interesting Goddess is Neith she is considered the grandmother of the gods she was ancient when Egypt was born there was a temple to her in Sais Egypt where one of the first medical schools was established. This medical school was primarily for women who where the priestesses of Neith. They were the midwives and the doctors of the time. Nieth was downgraded as most goddesses were to the goddess of archery and weaving but she was originally considered the primordial Force from which the world was born and the mother of the Sun God Ra,. the Goddess Tanit is believed to be a syncretization of Neith. Enjoyed your video !!!
You say that "'book' opened your eyes, but if you read and believed the bible, tge holy words of the one true God, you would know that St Paul revealed the truth that ALL pagan gods are DEVILS. Anything to the contrary is a lie from the devil, a heresy. One has to choose and choose wisely. Some people will choose the god of ME, the multitude of demon-gods of the pagans, or the Savior Jesus Christ, His Father, and the Holy Spirit. This video is the work of Ashtoreth and Baal, no doubt. The Mystery of the Masks, a film on UA-cam, has the real truth about the pagan demon-goddess which has won so many souls for Satan. She has had many names in many nations. This woman thinks it is great that Ashtoreth had over 400 prophets, but leaves out that all were slaughtered by Elijah, he holy prophet of God. The path is narrow, and only the Wisdom of God can guide anyone to it. The Holy Bible, studied and believed, is the guide for everlasting life. There is but one path to God, through his Son. This is why He said to spread the gospel, to help people like this woman who boasts her knowledge teaches the doctrine of devils in the film. Aaherah is the consort of Baal-Moloch, not Father God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jezebel worshipped Ashtoreth and was eventually thrown out a window and eaten by dogs, as God said would happen to the unrepentant murdereress. Still think worship of Ashtoreth will end well? Study the Bible, and you'll see the worship of devils always ends badly, even unto damnation. God help this prophet of Ashtoreth before its too late. Down with pagan demon-gods! Give blessings and praise to Yahweh alone, whose justice rules forever, AMEN
@@suzeeq41 what makes the biblical god different from any of the other gods our ancestors worshiped?
@@leonieromanes7265 It is a big subject, but Christianity is not about follow this, go to church, read the bible, but it was to restore everyone back to the Father of us all, it is this re-connection, being born again (the Fathers son or daughter) and having God's Spirit dwelling within is why we spend time alone, talking to the Father, reading through the bible, spending time with others who are living that restored lifestyle of the law of love and its fruits in every situation. It is said that the original construct of all physical existence came from the Father, and gave humanbeings a place to exist and to get to know the Father, this is the story of Adam and Eve (family) walking in the cool of the evening with God. That was the original purpose with the ability to choose. The "beautiful being" in the garden appeared to not be apart of the Fathers will, plan and purpose, and appeared liberated and free to do whatever it pleased and used the opportunity to deceive Eve to use her own judgement "choice" to eat the fruit. The fruit represented self-consciousness, awareness of good and evil, nakedness and desires, desires that were selfish, self-centered, self ambitious. God "the Father" removed Himself from ever walking with humans, as their Father, as a physical representation. Following this is the story of sons of God also breaking away from their original eternal responsibilities to use this physical existence as an opportunity to become fathers of their own, it is because of this we have a break off from the connection to the Father and a whole new reality of what we know of as gods and goddesses, actual physical beings and children of these sons of god. That is our present reality of what we call spiritual, afterlife, and mythology and legends. They were with God in eternity so their representation of a new spiritual reality is very much close to the origin, but the Father is not. Jesus represented the mediator, champion Son who came to represent the Godhead, of what a Son should be on earth and came to restore everyone back to the Father. He also brought the revelation of God as being a family Father Son and Spirit, he did not come as legendary stories would say he would mighty in battle, striking the enemies with godpower, but came lowly, simple, humble, He did not represent the old sons of God who came with their own self-interests, self-ambition, but came to do the Fathers will, purpose and plan, and remained connected, why He is called faithful and true, and why the Father crowned Him with many crowns, because of Him, we all can call the original God "Father" "my Father" I have much more to say but I will end it here, hope you well, blessings and receive the revelations of knowing it deep in your heart.
@@leonieromanes7265 Easy, he is actually God and the false gods worshiped long ago were the fallen angels impersonating gods until they were rounded up and thrown into the Abyss to be judged at the end of Time. The sons of god/fallen angels are spoken of in Genesis 6, Jude and II Peter. They were Osiris, Anubis, Isis, Zeus, Apollo, Odin, Thor, Quetzalcoatl, Shiva, Kali, etc. After they were imprisoned, their offspring, the giants, also claimed to be gods for awhile. Hence the pharoahs having elongated heads like the giants had. they wanted to emulate their gods. The pharaohs did it through binding but the giants heads were naturally like that.
Doesn’t matter it’s all fake.
I love this, i was wondering though, you said "in the oldest translation of the bible", maybe you could do a video on the history of the bible and where the changes started getting made etc etc.
That would be awesome
God word that make up the Holy Bible has never changed. There is only ONE Bible just different translations. Even when scientist discovered The dead sea scrolls in the 1947 hidden within a cave, All of the Biblical wording was the exact same. This was scientific proof the Bible hasn't changed for thousands of years ever since it was first documented into both Greek and Hebrew text.
Ok, so like, this is so compelling. I love that you share your sources and evidence, and clarify which bits are your opinion (though with the quality of evidence, I must say it sounds more like educated conjecture than mere opinions).
This was fascinating! I had heard of Asherah but never a detailed explanation. Thank you!
Since you mentioned Osiris and Isis, it would be interesting to hear your view of the theory of Osiris and Isis being the reincarnation of Enki and Inanna…
I learned about her a long time ago when I was questioning Christainity. I also found several different translation of the Abrahamic Bibles. I always found it interesting when things disapeared from the Christain Bible as their were discussions on the power structure in the Catholic church. I absolutely loved and adored the Christain Mythology being played in Lucifer (The TV show now on Netflix), when gods wife came from her prison in hell to spend time on earth with her 2 sons, Lucifer and Amenadiel. She later reconnected with god and went to form her own universe. I loved that they really did their reserach on the Christian Bibical figures and wrote a compeling story of the a dsyfunctional family with mega powers. Although, I am no longer a Christain, I find the Abrahmic mythology compeling and interesting. BTW, there are many Pagan religions were there were many Gods and Goddesses that were very powerful in their own right. The Christain scholars tried to regulate Goddesses into consorts and not "real" or have power in their own right, that simply isn't true, they were powerful. Many Goddesses had the power of Soverignty, and the Kings of the land would have to bed them in order to maintain their power. If a Goddess rejected the King then he wasn't able to rule, and another would have to take their place. Again, we have many Celtic Pagan Myths because the Christain Monks wrote them down, however, when they wrote them, they bent the myths to a very male centric and mysoginistic lens. For instance, the Goddesss Maeve who was a very powerful Goddess in her own right was killed by a piece of chease. She was also potrayed in a negative light because she was powerful in every since of the word. Goddess weren't all about fertility -- For example Athena was born in full battle armor when she leeped out of Zues head. She was the Goddess of War, but later was given a softer attrbutes like weaving... Mythologies were much more representive of the people that they came from.
There is a book by Imam Ibn Taymiyyah entitled: The Right Answer to Those Who Changed the Religion of Christ.
Or the discussions of Sheikh Shamsi, Sheikh Othman bin Al-Farouq and Ahmed Deedat with the Christians
"I always found it interesting when things disapeared from the Christain Bible as their were discussions on the power structure in the Catholic church" -Yea that's called MAN writing the bible to control others. The bible is the word of man, not god.
I think you are over demonizing the Catholic Church. The Bible shows the leaders of the church in a power struggle all the way from Moses on. The leaders said that the right way is pure monotheism and that you can’t worship any besides Yahweh. The people were livi by in a land where polytheism had already existed for 1000 years and fell back into the traditions of polytheistic worship. The leaders then go on a witch hunt to remove asherah poles and Baal temples and molach statues, and then once they get everyone on board, they conquer (or lose) more land, and then repeat the cycle.
Obviously the Catholic Church did try to squash polytheism in the places they extended to, and I do believe that was partly theological and partly political. But we should be clear in the fact that was not a new practice. Ever since the beginning of the belief that was how it happened.
Jahannah, In Middle east ( my area) there was hundreds of ( PAGANISM) Religions believing of ( Rebirth of Gods) , God has a Wife ( ASHERA) or Sons, Some has God of war, Rain, Sun, In Islam, QURAN, considering TRINITY of Christianity is a PAGANISM religion in which many nations believing of it before the Jesus who is consider in Islam as only a Prophet !!! Our lord has No wife or a son
Vers 2, , JIN , QURAN ( And [it teaches] that exalted is the nobleness of our Lord; He has not taken a wife or a son)
@@seankrake4776 can you really over demonize the Catholic Church? i mean so many deaths from efforts to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert/enslave the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous people by any means necessary--destroying cultures worldwide--anything to gain more power and fill the coffers in the name of God. Slaughtering people in the name of heresy...burning people alive...torture. little things like claiming the use of condoms or contraceptives is a sin increasing STDs and deaths in countries like Africa from AIDS... The way the church has handled the myriad of priests molesting children has been despicable and evil!!! i mean the list can go on for days on how you can point out the faults of the Christian religion and especially the wrongs of the Catholic Church. Most religions are creepy, gross and twisted was to govern the masses and steal their money and keep folks scared... but cmon man the Catholics are one of the worst.
Just discovered your channel. Absolutely love it ! I have been on this planet for 80 years and have always questioned the patriarchal god concept of western society! For some some reason, even from the age of 7 or 8, I did not believe all they were teaching in Catholic Sunday school ! Used to shock my peers by saying, "What if God was a woman!" Will be following your channel from now on! So many recent archaeological discoveries bringing us closer to the truth of our origins!
Agreed.Could you please tell me more about your religion right now?I am interested to know the beliefs of a person that has been on this planet a lot longer than me.
Yahweh was still the boss per se, but his wife was the "power behind the throne". The feminine side.
Love This Thankyou 🍃💚🌳
After 48 years of being a Christian and studying the Bible I had to give it all up after I started to realize that this too was a giant lie, just about everything I study comes out way different than I initially thought it was. Absolutely love you and your channel, keep it up !
Welcome to the dark side. It is easy to see the light from here.
I’m intrigued by the nature of the ancient texts that show Yahweh and Asherah together. My gradeschool history courses took a deep dive into biblical history, so I’d always known about Asherah poles and the goddess. I’d figured the book of Judges pretty reasonably accounted for any dual-worship-as Johannah says, the Biblical texts describe the Israelites worshipping Canaanite goddesses (though I’ve never heard of David doing so, just his descendants). What doesn’t make sense to me is the fact that any reference to Asherah is left at all: if she was indeed written out by a patriarchal cadre of scribes, why do so many of the books matter-of-factly state that, once again, the Israelites were back at that apostasy and idolatry? Seems more reasonable to think that after having worshipped Yahweh first, the Israelites took to worshipping Asherah too. Nor would the Canaanites disagreed with adopting Yahweh too; they often acknowledge Yahweh’s power and apparently regarded Him as a very powerful local god. So without reviewing the original texts to see where Asherah is chilling with Yahweh, I’ll have to assume it’s conjecture at best.
As the Bible states, they were slipping back into apostasy. So yes it did and does still happen
Did you forget the worship of the "Goddess of Heaven" mentioned in the prophetic books?!
Yeah, the Bible itself mentions the Israelites including pagan gods all the time. That's why Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians & Judah by the Babylonians.
@@ametrineambrosia4929 I'm aware of the Goddess of Heaven mentioned in Jeremiah - but all reference to her is through God's words, as he admonishes the Israelites for worshipping her. It seems they believed that by ceasing to worship her, they had come into hard times, but Jeremiah tells them that it is because they worship this false goddess that they are being punished, not the other way around. At least there, the author was not writing the Israelites' goddess out of history - he was actively pointing to her worship as a cause for their downfall.
@@kenpobro The Israelites were reprimanded for worshiping the Jezebel spirit who is the counterfeit of our Heavenly Mother, the Holy Ruach.
They were supposed to worship the Holy Ruach, the true Queen of Heaven but they were worshiping an evil, demonic feminine spirit.
The lying pen of the scribes made it seem that all feminine is evil and demonic. The ancient Hebrew scribes purposely and deliberately edited out the feminine endings to most of the nouns throughout the Old Testament.
In Isaiah 49 the Mother of our race is being accused of forsaking her children. "But Zion (Jerusalem)...said, the Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me. And the Lord answered, "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I (your true Mother) will not forget you." Isa 49:15.
I'm so excited about this
Love it, very interesting and comical. Awesome
Makes perfect sense when you consider that the Star of David, the symbol of Isreal, is the combined Male (lingam) upward-pointing triangle and the female (Yoni) downward-pointing triangle. If you are unaware of her works, I am happy to suggest Barbara Walker and her books on the goddess.
This "Star of David" is a pagan symbol. It's been found all over the world and it's not Biblical/Torah at all. It's best to do your own research so you will not be fooled by the lies spread throughout this world.
You should do a video on Adam's first wife Lilith. I feel like her story and god's wife are clear examples of how women were cut out of divinity
Do you know what divinity is or do you use the academic definition?
American Indians as far as I know had divine figures in their community who had gone through the process of divination they were almost if not always male and there was a reason for that of which you and me just don’t know.
Theirs and other cultures around the world would be more than happy to explain why divination would be more of a masculine thing than a feminine thing and its not just men who would explain it to you but the women as well.
Although, because much of the world is modernised and I couldn’t name a single culture that practices divination today I fear that all the people that could explain are now dead.☹️
None the less;
Modern ethics has no place in ancient practices that modern ethics has also deemed inappropriate for todays society.
If divination was placed upon males in ancient times then people who are live today like me and you are in no place to say things akin to your comment because we just aren’t educated on the subject enough to disagree.
U wrong. Lilith is the devil's wife . Devil was the snake to make eve eat the fruit, there for eve didn't listen to her soul mate Adam or God. There for now u got women listening to other men or other men demanding women .. Wake up.
@@imafackinjunglist
Yahweh / YHWH/ yhwh same word using in Hebrews.
Yahweh was considered one of the 12 sons of el.
Messiah never prayed to Yahweh.
What is the name of His Lord ( Rabb) do you know?
ALLAH.
No prophet adressed their Lord name as Yahweh.
Allah is the original name of One Almighty God which every prophet worshipped and preaced.
Israelites changed this holy name & made it plural form " elohim " for majestic reason.
Then they adapted pagan war god name Yahweh from surrounding pagans.
Yehova ( yhvh) is misreaden latinized word borrowed from Ancient wargod Yahweh ( yhwh).
You are obsessed with Paul's fascination and technically follow the footstep of Satan.
.Why you worship to Jesus?
Do you know
Jesus prayed to one God during the night of crucifixion?
If you really follow Jesus,
Why you prayed to triniune God?
It clearly proves that truth isn't with you.
Just like any other prophet,
Jesus has God.
That's why, He never told people to worship him instead of His God.
After Jesus,
Gospel was written in hebrew & greek by mark, Matthew, john, Luke and they added many word from their own.
For example,
Jesus adressed his God as aramaic word " Rabb" meaning Lord which was written in hebrew " Aabb" meaning Father.
Jesus said him " word of God" which is true.
In the begginning of Gospel,
John distorted the true meaning of " word of God" and gave his own explanation.
"Word of God" is title of Messiah & it is not relating to the God's everlasting uncreated unchanged entity.
Whereas Gospel writter John introduced the idea of existing 2 god[...... Word with (first) God, Word is( second) God ] in the begginning of Gospel without understanding the meaning of word of God.
Jesus spoke on aramaic where God name is Alaha which is similar to arabic Allah.
Arabs inherited the name of God " Allah " since the period of Prophet Abraham & his son Ismael ( peace be upon on them).
Early zews distorted the holy name of God & made it plural form " elohim ".
Then they borrowed wargod name Yahweh from surrounding pagans.
@@imafackinjunglist You're just wrong. Plenty of cultures had divine figures that were male, female, shifted between them, or didn't have a gender. I don't know where the hell you got your information. Pick up any 7th grade Greek mythology book to prove how many gods and GODDESSES there were. Same with Norse mythology. Hell, Loki is a gender-fluid enigma. He shifted into a mare, female horse, to have some fun with a stallion and then gave birth to Odin's 6-legged horse that pulls his chariot.
So divinity isn't just a strictly masculine thing. And all of your claim started with "As far as I know, American Indians", then gave no actual sources or examples of the lack of women being divine in religions. So I don't know if your definition of divinity is different from everyone else's, but a general rule of thumb is "if it's considered holy in that religion, then it's divine"
Interesting facts. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome. Thank you!!
Thank you for another amazing video. Hindu tradition also celebrate the Divine Feminine, Radha, Laksmi, Shakti… All around the world in ancient times, the worship of the Great Mother was primordial. Will be wonderful if you could do another video on the subject, thank you.
Radha is a fanmade character unlike others.
I experienced my Sacred Feminine awakening close to 30 years ago, and have studied and practiced a Feminine spirituality ever since, but your pure enthusiasm as I watched this video over my lunch hour has been a breath of joyful fresh air! Thank you! I have subscribed and shared!
Thanks so much! I am the authos of Sacred Mothers and Goddesses Oracle Deck, currently painting ASHERAH for the second sister Deck!
First l am hearing of Asherah, fascinating.
You and Jordan Peterson should have a chat with his bible talks and you throwing in spanners like this what a wonderful talk it could be?
Loving your stuff, keep it going
Actually, what they believe at the moment happened is a little more complicated. The oldest references they've found to any god whose name remotely resembles Yahweh is from ancient tribal communities who lived in the desert of Saudi Arabia. They were closely related to the people of Canaan & the Mesopotamians seem to have called all these people collectively Habiru as an identifier (likely where the word Hebrew originated from). There is even one Egyptian inscription claiming that Yahweh was the storm god of the Midianites, which would mean he is actually the same deity as Ba'al. Ironically, Ba'al also had a wife referred to as Asherah, which is one of the things biblical scholars refer to to claim that she is entirely unrelated to Yahweh, even though that is obviously incorrect.
Anyway, why she was erased is due to the Babylonian conquest of Israel. Several members of high ranking families were taken as political prisoners to live in Babylon. They were given nice homes & clothes, could own businesses & their children were given educations befitting of Babylonian nobles, they just were under constant guard and were not allowed to leave the city. Later, when the Persians conquered the Babylonians, they allowed these prisoners to go home. While they were there, though, the Israelite & Judeans had always had a belief that giving patronage to one god or another ensured protection & if you ever lost a war, irregardless of how ill conceived or outmatched, it was your fault for not pleasing your god. They only then used that Babylonian education to research to the best of their ability & discovered that almost every god they believed in had mirrors in either Egyptian or Mesopotamian religion (Egyptians had also conquered the region before), but Yahweh, being largely unique and from an illiterate culture the Mesopotamians didn't really pay attention to, or care about, was the only god they believed in that was unlike anyone else's gods, so they decided they had angered him by worshipping other peoples' gods too & erased them all, but him. When they later returned to the Holy Land, they forced this new, monotheistic version of Judaism on their people, using their status. That is why Asherah was erased.
A lot of people don't want to admit that this culture & religion was never static or that the bible is wrong. Sad thing is, if you are familiar with & widely study how Native American religions used to work, you can clearly see that the peoples of that region of the world were much the same. The core of the religion was the same, but one tribe may have had a god another didn't, or they called the same god by different names, despite all aspects & physical representation of the deity being identical, or they picked up different stories they liked from other people's nearby & incorporated those things into their own stories & culture. Knowing that, it really makes the last 1500 years of history even more depressing than it already was.
The Bible is Divinely Inspired according to theologians and not in the full sense Revelation from a Higher Power directly. The mixing of cultures never became fully "un-mixed." Prior to the conquest of the Babylonians the Israelites were quite familiar with the cultures and dieties of the surrounding regions, and living in Babylon only increased their familiarity and acquaintance with the peoples and cultures nearby. After the end of the exile, some "unmixing" or erasure of apparent references were removed, while other influences still lay hidden largely in the background of the Bible, as well as the Babylonian Talmud, Kabalah, and other teachings and texts.
The Bible even from a historical perspective, is quite an interesting book to study and understand. There is much more to it than one would gather from the typical sermon at a Sunday in church.
The problem is you weren't there to see all that happen...so you can't be 100% sure. The other problem us, ir the subtext is the typical atheist argument that leads to knocking down all traditions and erasing culture in hopes that "pure reason" will erase all the voodoo from the old religion and culture. But that never happens and from the ashes of the old culture comes a tyrant as Neitche predicted when he said God is dead, and Stalin, Mao, Che, PolPot etc etc proved.
@@cromBumny Besides all that,I've heard other theories that seem to be probable.One being that they ditched the other gods,because after they adopted Yahweh as their war god,they kept having victories against their neighbors.
the book of Ezekiel is in the middle of the Babylonian conquest, where Ezekiel seeks to purge the Israelites of their idol worship, likely including Asherah. The Israelites had been involved in idol worship for centuries before according to the Bible itself.
@@emersonblake7 Well, it's very clear I multiple instances that Asherah was considered to be the wife of Yahweh & Yahweh was even part of the Canaanite religion, though not quite the same way that he has been noted as being part of that of the Midianites. That's a new thing that clicked when I heard that side of things. For Midianites & likely other tribal peoples of Saudi Arabia, Yahweh was their name for Ba'al & he was their storm god. Canaanites, before the rise of Israel & Judea, had Ba'al as the storm god, but began including Yahweh as their metallurgy god. Having a metallurgy god at all would have been a newer cultural tradition at the time which had not always been a part of their culture, as their ancestors' didn't always know how to work metal. Then, Asherah is repeatedly known to have been both Baal's wife & Yahweh's wife. They literally just took another name for Ba'al from a neighboring, closely related people & made that their metallurgy god. The same religion as that of Canaan is still being practiced by Israel & Judea unchanged for a long time after that, until the Babylonian invasion. Probably the only reason Yahweh is given any particular importance is that, similarly to the Greeks & Egyptians, who dedicated cities/ settlements to specific gods, they sort of took the same route, but had their entire countries dedicated to Yahweh's protection instead of specific settlements. Both of them.
Excellent episode. Welcome back, by the way. May I recommend you looking into Lawrence Gardner. He has a series of books that look deep into the liniage of both Jesus and Mary Magnalin. I finished the copies I have yet, but it has been a fascinating read. It lends to what you are discussing in this episode on how much has be changed or left out completely of today's biblical teachings. Anyways it's great to have you back.
That’s blasphemy. Mary Magdalene was married to another male disciple and was a former prostitute. She was Jesus’ most devoted saint yes, but they’re not related.
Excellent work 🎉
For those who are interested I believe Asherah was the inspiration for the 1980's Filmation series She-Ra. Not only is the name She-Ra taken directly from Asherah, but she is said to be the most powerful woman in the Universe which would be true if you were to become 'God's wife' and rule the Universe jointly with El.
One or more of the Filmation writers may have got the inspiration for She-Ra from the book/story of Asherah which is a lore mentioned/discussed/debated in some secret societies.
I adore Asherah. She was the first and ultimate goddess that, from my searching, was the pinnacle goddess that all other goddesses took aspects from. I read that she may have also inspired Isis along with Hathor, and that she might be the initial inspiration for Hekate who was the first goddess in the Greek pantheon but she was the only titan that was left (presumably because they couldn't kill her), and though they relegated her to a goddess of the underworld she was also the goddess of magic and had other softer aspects. Also, with Asherah and her tree of life and the snakes, she may be the original inspiration for the snake in the garden of Eden but it was to warn humanity instead of deceive them. Snakes were always seen as wise and healing. I can't remember where that came from but I think there was an earlier story (Assyrian or Sumerian?) about it before it was co-opted into the Hebrew bible. She is amazing!
Keep in mind that Canaanites and their religion, including the worship of Asherah brought about savage practices such as child sacrifices and ritual prostitution which became widespread in the ancient world.
@@matthewkeener583 My understanding is that child sacrifice was actually associated with Baal (or even Molech) and not Asherah, but because some cultures associated Asherah with Baal (and sometimes El/Yahweh) there is an inference that the sacrifices were to her. But this has been argued and, imo, shown to not be true for her at all because she was a fertility goddess ultimately and there's no reason for her to have that kind of sacrifice. There was sacred prostitution in her temples which were part of sacred rites, but this was taken & used by men not associated with her temples and prostitution was perverted to their desires. This is what initially was condemned by Canaanite authorities & the early followers of Yahweh, which then carried down through Jewish traditions. She was then written out of their scriptures & her powers attributed to Yahweh instead.
they are not real never were, they are mythological all of them
Asherah isn't the wife of YEHOWEN/ Yehowa. Other paganism beliefs in that
@@Selene13zz No she was never God wife, ot didn't stated that in the old Tanakh scrolls nor of the Torah a.k.a the old testament. Paganism beliefs was path of the ancient time.
I can't put into words how much I appreciate your research and passion! ✨️
12th planet by Zacharia sitchin. Sumerian history predates the the old testament and Hebrew texts, such as Adam and Eve the tower of Babel and Noah and the flood. Really enjoying this channel! 😃
Excellent.Loved it
Tis Amazing thank you 🌟💎🌟
If you haven't already read it, I would strongly suggest the book, 'The Once and Future Goddess'. by Elinor Gadon. It changed my life.
How so if you don't mind me asking?
@@ed7590 HUGE eye opener. So many things I kind of intuited, but couldn't really articulate or fully understand the context for were revealed, as well as so much more. Check it out for yourself!
Blasphemy
@@davidcarty7584 Arrogant stupidity.
Jess, how dare you suggest that the feminine can be powerful ... only the males can be powerful ... the females are subservient and inferior to the males in every way - just as David Carty and his insane friends.
Fascinating , thank you lioness. I'm also a 🦁 who has a thing with🐍 and yes the suppressed feminine energy has always been quite obvious . Feel like it's gaining momentum and definitely coming back into alignment. It's important to understand the feminine womb of creation 🙏💚🌏🦋
I’m addicted to this channel I’m slowly working my way thru all the videos haha 😅
I absolutely love what you’re doing keep it up
I love your topics! 👍🏻
Now research Nehushtan (The Brass Serpent). There is an esoteric connection between the serpent that Moses lifted up in the desert to heal his people, and Jesus being lifted up on the cross.
Also look at when the Asherah and Nehushtan were removed from the Jerusalem Temple. They were both sacred objects therein, and were not removed at the same time.
Much more could be said on the mysteries of this symbolism.
Actually the name "Ashera" tells a lot about her role in the gods realm. it is pronounced /Asheerah/ in Arabic and it means the companion/life partner and sexual partner. it is also inclusive of good companionship in general. the other meaning of the word Asheerah or Asheerat means intimate or protective tribe or close family. the word "Mo'ashara" with glottal stop between the "O" and "A" means companionship and it specifically means sexual intercourse in some contexts.
The name may be descendant from the older Ashtarte or Ashtaroot from the Canaanite and the Phoenician pantheon, the Akkadian "Ashasdartu", and "Ishtar" the Babylonian goddess who started as the mother goddess of love and war but with time the 'war" part was taken by masculine gods (Babylonian ERRA, Akkadian NERGAL, and Hebrew Yehweh).
The energies of the "divine feminine" are returning to Earth along with our true history! Everything is being found at once....thousands of years of information lost, stolen and "hidden" are all being discovered or "re-discovered" since 2012. Coincidence...I think not. 🤔
You should help me in discovering why NOW, what has changed that these things are finally coming out, all at ounce almost.
@@amber_Land Proofread.
@@amber_Land this information has been around awhile. And documented. It’s just that corruption and control has made it so no one will believe it. I mean how easy is it for someone to rewrite a book from another language then add in manipulative texts like “people will tell you this is lies don’t believe them” excuses so no one ever questions it?
Comments like yours is one of the reasons I might enjoy the feedback more than the actual content of the videos!
Unfortunately, as you've pointed out so eloquently and without finger pointing, too many youtubers have NO clue of how much their contributions adds to overall confusion.
So, here's to you! May your studies continue to impart knowledge!
I love your channel and this is such an interesting snippet of history. Why the creepy music though 😂😂😂
the crack in the foundation for me was the commandment "thou shalt have no other god before me". not "I'm the only one", but "I'm the main guy"... the shift to male dominance was perhaps after the fall of the first temple, maybe before, but the advent of Christianity really put it in overdrive. the reasonable assumption of Mary as a woman of means supporting the ragtag group because of a very charismatic (and buddhist leaning) follower, then being subverted by calling her a whore... feels like disciples with insecurities, or some of their scribes having issues and acting them out... but all the major gods of antiquity had partners and pantheons... I like the notion of a goddess far more than a single male persona. clearly male ego inspired... heheh. as an atheist it is properly a projection of political and social ambitions, so a small-dick energy priesthood removing divine feminine... sounds about right... which should have been cause to discount the faith, not women...
I just discovered you and your channel. I had never heard that GOD had a wife. This shows us that big religion is like big government, pulling the wool over our eyes. Thank You and keep up the execellent work.🙏
Many many books were excluded from the bible as we know it, as it didn't seve their agenda. Hopefully all these lost books will surface and the true history can be told. Love the way you bring history alive.
Many of those lost books have surfaced and are available. Do you want a link?
It's because you can't control people when they know they truth.
Rewrite it now and call it the truth. That's what they did over hundreds of years.
Parts of the Bible written 500+ years after the events and they say it's accurate?! Nope......wrote what they wanted.
We can do the same.
@@nosuchthing8 i would
Looking back as an adult i realize there were people in my rural Appalachian Southern Babtist church that were more aware of secrets and half hidden things such as Asherah being God's wife. I was taught that she was seen as such by the Isrealites, but then some other adult pushed it off as a mistake made by humans to have invented her that God had to correct.
Just saw you talk about this on GNostic Informant channel ! Can’t wait 😛
Gnostic informant? That sounds like something I would like. Thanks for dropping names.
Fun stream. These have become addicting.
I've recently become further and further drawn into norse mythology thanks to a band called Brothers of metal. one song references the myth of how the norse gods created humans. they took a log of ASH and ELM carved them to be human and breathed life into them. given this video Jahannah I thank you for it. it also cements my belief that every myth from every culture is either a real puzzle piece or a fake one. I hope I live to see the day we could see a complete puzzle of our history and origins free of lies, deceit, and curruption.
Me too
Damn, well said 👏
Yup a lot a secrets…
This was freaking AMAZING
@JahannahJames and YESS it got me emotionally too! ❤❤❤awesome research thank you for sharing this!!!
Yeah I remember learning about how all these deities each had their own consort. It makes sense, when you think about it - whether monotheistic, or polytheistic, Judeo-Christian theology is seems to be inherently dualistic. In fact, many other religions also embrace the concept of duality, recognizing that light and dark, feminine and masculine, husband and wife, life and the afterlife, evil and good, etc. I honestly have no idea what the Star of David means, but I’ve always felt the two triangles, with one inverting the other, seems to communicate something about this ancient idea that’s still thriving today - the duality, represented by a triangle that points north, and one that points south. I’m probably wrong, lol, but that’s what I like to think the Star of David means.
I'm Gnostic. I revere Sofia, Gods wisdom. It's good that the pendulum is swinging back towards the center now. I think you're doing well. Please keep up the good work.
I had heard of Asherah as *a* god but I never knew who she was and that she was wiped from the records, really interesting!
Jahannah, you two are so great together. I follow you both with joy. Their is a lot about the sacred to uncover about the attempts at concealing the Goddess through history. You should research who could be a Rabbi in 35 of the C.E. Then consider that Jesus was a Rabbi...... strap yourself to the chair. :)
Take care and thank you for sharing.
hank
These vids are so up my street. And I thought I knew a lot about ancient times. And omg jahannah has great nails
Ours is being connected as we are seeing the threads of history open to our view of the universe and our loved ones. Much love from a child of the divine creators. Let us make our new world together.
as a twin flame the concept of asherah is fascinating
You left out a major part. There were two major reasons why Asherah was excluded from Davidian Judaism.
When Babylon sacked Jerusalem in 589 BC., the exiled men blamed this Sacred Prostitiution of the Asherim because it “made Yahweh jealous.” Plus, yeah, misogyny.
In the design of the Holy Temple, the top is the design is actually called the “Gallery of Women” or something, the Sacred Feminine used to be given top billing.
Nice to see you are still following my work. You have a great ability at making things more palatable for the masses. Kudos!
Sources please?
Great video 👍🏻
this video was so inciteful
Lol very funny and entertaining! My first time hearing about Asherah as welll! Thank you for this. The patriarchy really mucked things up…Moar cake!
@@Sinha010 your Gods are man made. The Bible lacks and pales in comparison to what a simple deep field image by Space telescopes describes a ‘universal creator.’ The god in the Bible sounds like a petulant child full of human derived emotions. Good luck with your ‘patriarchy’ 🙄 🤙🏽
A great book with a lot of details about Asherah is "The Hebrew Goddess" by Raphael Patai
great stuff
I really think the whole "subjugation of women" thing is more modern than we care to admit. There were female priests and disciples in Judaism (before it arbitrarily redefined itself as monotheistc), Christianity, plenty in Celtic and Druid religious practices. The Norse revered women and the division of labor was taken to be a necessity and not a hierarchy. The Buddha himself (500 BC) established separate equal sanghats (churches) for males and females so that sexual thoughts would not disrupt everyone's meditation.
This makes a lot of sense...I always had a feeling that there was a Female God (Mother), in addition to Male God, and the Son. Also, the Daughter. "On Earth as it is in Heaven" is in Lord's Prayer.
I find it REALLY interesting that you just showed Ishtar. Asherah has been worshipped for many years in Appalachia by the name Ishtar. I’m in the bath now or I’d snap a few pics of my altar. But my tribe has worshipped her …her heartbeat and her message has not been forgotten 🥰
Lol 😂 it’s UA-cam can’t show pics just realized that…after I took a pic of all my altars.
@@gypsyjade7170 appreciate your enthusiasm to share, and that you don't Like your own comments.
Can I see the altar? I wonder why she had a falling out with Yahweh
good stuff much love
The favourite talking point of every hippie for the last 100 years... sold as "shocking news".
Good, all that time not wasted to watching it once again.
I think you need to take a deeper look at the situation from other prospectives. Abraham is said to have been a Sumerian (ur of Chaldea) where he would have grown up with polytheism. It isn’t until he makes a deal with god that he really becomes a monotheist. All of the people at that time believed there were multiple gods and some like Abraham believed that El was the holiest and the only one worthy of worship. Abraham is fairly staunch in his el only worship. The prior Canaanite beliefs are very similar to the Sumerian and Babylonian beliefs. Asherah, ashtareth, Astarte and many other names were the Canaanite names for the wife of El. This correlates closely with the Sumerian Ishtar. What we see happen in Jewish history is that the leaders typically stuck tight to their monotheism, but that the common people frequently lapsed back into polytheism like their Canaanite neighbors. There indeed was Asherah and Baal worship, because people wanted that sense of commonality with their neighbors, they wanted to not be the weirdos who admitted there were other heavenly being but not worship them. And some of the kings would slide and allow it, some of them would come through and destroy the asherah poles, because they believed them to be worshiping a being unworthy of worship.
Inspiring philosophy does an interesting video on the topic of early Hebrew polytheism and it is fairly enlightening. I would say a modern interperetation is that the asherah, Baal, and molach worship worship did occur in Hebrew places at that time, but the more devout leaders saw this as worshipping lower beings like angels. You see a lot of early texts disagree about angels, fallen angels, and the relationship of Yahweh to other heavenly beings. The medieval Christian church tried to cut all of this out, I believe it probably made conversion harder. If you try to force a polytheist to believe in monotheism, but then also say that those polytheistic beings are cost and just aren’t gods you will likely come off as disingenuous. I don’t think it was a deliberate attempt to suppress female worship, it was more of an attempt to stick to implicit monotheism. There are similar occurances in Saudi Arabia, where previous heavenly beings were worshipped, but monotheism came in and mingled, then changed, then when Islam became popular, the previous beliefs were hunted down to maintain their religion monotheistic.
It is a really interesting topic. I wouldn’t say the Bible hides it, they pretty openly mention in the Old Testament that people routinely would fall off the track, worship other gods, then get punished and be more devout. I think this trend largely extends into modern times as we see religious groups relax and restrict on pretty regular cycles. I also think it is pretty natural to want to worship more than one god. Everybody wants somebody who represents them as someone to worship. The scholars, warriors, mothers, kings, trickster kids, hunters and many more are the backbone of polytheistic religions, because people want an almighty power to represent themselves and to believe that some higher power will protect them from the scary things in life, like childbirth, storms, fires, and loneliness.
I do think you place a fairly heavy opinion on how this has been covered up, which I’d argue that if it were a coverup you wouldn’t see the Bible outright admit to it. This is one of my favorite videos I’ve seen from you, as I feel you did a good amount of research. I’d highly recommend looking even deeper, as we can see some very interesting correlations, connections, and maybe even some better understanding of other ancient peoples by understanding their mindset. I feel like the alt history community very frequently applies modern concepts to ancient ideologies, and that it’s not for the better. Exploring the ideas of how all around the world, at roughly the same time many people developed very similar versions of polytheism and seeing how religion can travel faster than empires could be a while video topic itself. I highly recommend watching inspiring philosophy’s video on biblical polytheism, it will give you a different perspective on the people of the time.