>>19780219>Husband of AsherahAsherah was the consort of El, who is also known as Yahweh. She was also known by other names: Elat was her most common epithet. The Greeks knew her as Dione, Rhea or Cybele. The Canaanites knew her as Tannit or Hawwa, which is Eve in Hebrew (Fun Fact: YHWH is the fusion of Yh/Yw, which can be Yah or Yam, with Hwh, which is Hawwah). Who worshiped Asherah? Everyone who lived between India and Spain, 2nd millennium BC. until the Christian era. With the exception of the Hebrews, who only venerated it until the monotheistic reforms of Hezekiah and, later, of Josiah. The etymology of “Tannit” proposed by Cross is: feminine of “tannin”, which would mean “the one with the serpent”. Furthermore, Asherah had a second epithet in the Bronze Age, “dat batni”, also “she of the serpent”. The Sumerians knew her as Nintu or Ninhursag. Its symbol is a serpent coiled around a tree or staff: the caduceus. Associated with snakes. Asherah is also an Ophidian mother goddess. And both are also associated with trees.
