Just arrived: One way to be introduced to a fabulous historical BACKGROUND
for the reading and study of Zecharia’s wonderful research and books.
We thank Paul MM Cooper for this brilliant video. Enjoy, Ken
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12/12/19 Gaia has it ALL!
www.Gaia.com is an incredible resource and is quite inexpensive. I’d recommend
the section on Ancient Civilizations, episodes 1 and 2 which are mostly about
Enki and Enlil, the two most important persons in Sitchin’s The 12th Planet and
other 13 books. Unfortunately none of these experts cannot cross the dots and ts
and therefore miss out on the best explanation/interpretation that I have come across
in 40 years of my own personal research. What a pity!
To Come
Discoveries in Spanish cave suggest Neanderthals had hot water and bedrooms
Archaeologists in Spain have made a number of discoveries inside an ancient cave in Catalonia which suggest that Neanderthals had hot water and separate living quarters around 60,000 years ago. The finding adds to the mounting evidence that Neanderthals were a lot more sophisticated than…
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Ethiopia Ancient Living
From New York Times: Science Times
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By CARL ZIMMER
Humans may have inhabited sites at high elevations far earlier than once believed, a new study suggests.
7/3/19 ASHERAH: Yahweh’s CONSORT?
42nd Webinar – 20 July 2019
Digging for Asherah
Finding the Hebrew Goddess
Digging for Asherah
Finding the Hebrew Goddess
Her name was Asherah and for thousands of years, she was venerated by women and men alike as the supreme mother goddess. In 1928, a second millennium “Canaanite” port city called Ugarit, in today’s northern Syria, was the site of a major excavation that unearthed a veritable treasure-trove of cuneiform alphabetic texts which featured the mythology of the region. For hundreds of years before Abraham (ca 2200-1700 BC) migrated to what would become known as Israel, Asherah was revered as Athirat, Earth Mother and Fertility Goddess. Upon entering the region, the ancient Israelites soon adopted her and gave her the Hebrew equivalent name of Asherah. The Ugarit excavation put Asherah—the goddess—on the map again after having lost her place for thousands of years.
But who was Asherah to the ancient Israelites? And why is she often paired with Yahweh, their supreme god? Historians and archeologists have pieced together Asherah’s narrative finding large chunks of it interwoven in the artifacts from the region and in the sacred scriptures of the Hebrew Bible itself. Because evidence suggests that Asherah was observed in ancient Israel and Judah as early as the 12th century BC to a few decades before the fall of the southern kingdom of Judah (ca 587-588 BC), the focus will be on this pre-exilic period.
Researching the presence of a Hebrew goddess begs the question: how monotheistic were the pre-exilic Israelites and Judeans? The very notion of polytheism is inherent in the quest for Asherah. Moreover, the many artifacts representing Asherah and her cult from the region belies the biblical prohibition against the creation of idols. While discussing the intricacies of the Bible is beyond our scope, a portion of the research associated with the Bible pertaining to Asherah, the goddess, and asherah, her cult symbol will be assessed. Moreover, the significant roles of women within the cult will be reviewed as will comparisons made between the folk religion of the illiterate class versus the book religion of the elites.