Across the Ancient Near East, God the Father was venerated and worshipped with his companion God the Mother.
Experts now conclude that the religious expression of Ancient Palestine (home of Yahweh, Asherah and the Bible) “does not differ in form or content from practices known throughout Syria.
It cannot be claimed that the religion of either Israel or Judah was in a substantive way different [from its neighbors].”
-Biblical Archaeology Review in History’s Vanquished Goddess Asherah