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Check this out (link):
link has a longer discussion about what happened. basically as Judaism made the switch from a polytheistic religion to a monotheistic one, most of teh other gods and goddesses got written out of the script, with their powers being given to their main god, "God" himself. this included his purported wife-goddess.
I was curious what kind of she-goddess god would be into, so I did an image search for Asherah... no pics exist, but judging from the primitive figurines of her found in abundance, she was... eh... well endowed. which is probably not surprising.
Before the Israelite god Yahweh really made it big, a bevy of other deities shared the stage with him, among them a fertility goddess named Asherah. So says theologian Francesca Stavrakopoulou, host of the 2011 BBC series you evidently saw, called Bible's Buried Secrets. And that much is largely accepted by historians. Nor is Stavrakopoulou alone in claiming that Yahweh (in some form) and Asherah were at one point an item, worshipped side by side, though this is a matter of more contention
link has a longer discussion about what happened. basically as Judaism made the switch from a polytheistic religion to a monotheistic one, most of teh other gods and goddesses got written out of the script, with their powers being given to their main god, "God" himself. this included his purported wife-goddess.
I was curious what kind of she-goddess god would be into, so I did an image search for Asherah... no pics exist, but judging from the primitive figurines of her found in abundance, she was... eh... well endowed. which is probably not surprising.