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Asherah: The Queen of Heaven

Before Yahweh worship stood alone in Canaan, Asherah was the Great Queen of Heaven. Baal Kadmon's study, the first volume of his Canaanite Magick series, gathers what the ancient sources actually say about her. Chapters follow her trail through the Old Testament, the Ugaritic tablets, ancient Egypt, Hittite religion, Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Phoenicia, with a brief orientation to Canaanite religion as a whole. The second half turns to practice under the heading Asherah and Her Ways: five rituals drawn from her traditional offices, including rites for the destruction of enemies, attaining love, seductive power, abundance, and healing. Kadmon writes as a practitioner restoring a goddess whose cult sites, symbols, and names survived in the margins of the Bible and the clay of Ugarit. For readers of ancient Near Eastern religion who want the history in one place and a working devotional path with it, this is the volume to start with.

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