The Goddess of the Israelites Colin Bower 20 September 2005 11:00 Asherah was the consort of the most senior deity in ancient Palestine and a goddess in her own right The discovery that the deities of ancient Palestine were female ought to be good news for all of humanity, not just women. Even the increasingly beleaguered monotheistic religions might find reason to be pleased, for it gives them opportunity to reinvent a deity that will represent the yin and the yang, the yoni as well as the lingam, the mother as well as the father, the wife as well as...
