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The name of the Canaanite goddess, Asherah, means “straight”, a reference to her morality as well as to her manifestation in the form of an unshaped post or a living tree inside her temple.  As the mother and nurturer of the gods, she was worshipped in groves of trees, and she was called upon at childbirth and during the planting of crops.  Her full name was Lady Asherah of the Sea, although she was also called Elat, meanng “goddess.”

The Old Testament forbade participation in the orgiastic rituals in celebration of Asherah’s powers, despite widespread public worship by such prominent figures as Queen Maacha, her daughter, Queen Jezebel, was killed by Hebrew zealots on the charge of harlotry during a festival of Asherah.             -Visions of the Goddess