Although Israel claimed to be distinct from the Canaanites, in actuality the archaeological and textual record reveals that, “in its formative centuries . . . Israel was a lot what it claimed not to be . . .
In other words, Israel was essentially Canaanite . . . [and] we not know the religious landscape of Israel included one or more Canaanite goddesses.” -Biblical Archaeology Review
The Canaanite god/God the Father and goddess/God the Mother depicted at left, subsequently assimilated into Israelite theology.
-History’s Vanquished Goddess Asherah