Long hidden or dismissed, Asherah was revered as a fertility goddess and “Queen of Heaven,” with references to her appearing in both temple inscriptions and early biblical texts.

Jesus taught his disciples to call God "our heavenly Father." Therefore, the loving relationship he has with the Father from eternity now extends to those adopted into God's family (Rom. 8:15).

In Canaan, Baal and Asherah, the god and goddess of fertility, were worshiped, along with El, the supreme God, and a whole pantheon of other options.

When a doll is more than just doll.True, Barbie, with her cinched-in waist and narrow hips, is hardly a swelling Venus of Willendorf, a type of well-known goddess sculpture made in Europe almost ...

In the Middle East many civilisations worshipped a version of the goddess Asherah, the “Queen of Heaven”. Her main symbol was a pole or a tree, which the ancient Canaanites viewed as a signifier of ...

She was also seen as a goddess of fertility, sexual love, and war. She was also known as the Queen of Heaven. Her worshippers raised Asherah poles in her name. They also engaged in what Smith’s Bible ...

Eostre is the namesake of the female fertility hormone estrogen. Her name and festival rituals have been appropriated by Christianity for the church's rebirth-after-death story. I've had ...

Fertility is the capability to produce offspring, and besides sexual behavior, it is contingent on a number of factors such as nutrition, culture, and economics. There are many goddesses of fertility.