ASHERAH STYLIZED MAN MADE TREE OF LIFE KNOWLEDGE.

The word that the Bible, translates 'grove' was a Juniper grove, an an Asherah Grove.

The esoteric stylized multi-branched tree was a symbol of the Great Goddess of Canaan. The Asherah tree simultaneously symbolised the 'tree of knowledge' and the 'tree of life.'

In northern Babylon she was known as the Goddess of the Tree of Life, or the Divine Lady of Eden. (Walker 1988)

Ki and Ki-Hi, Hi for feminine is the name of the Juniper Tree in the Armenian language.
Juniper, English is derived from the Latin word juniperus.
In Latin, juniperus is combination of the word junio, spirit of life, and parere, bearer, producer, (TIME), hence eternal youth, evergreen, everlasting, eternal flow, etc. It follows that Ki, the original IE phoneme signifies the spirit of life and PR the bearer. KiPRiSSi/CYPRESS.

Ginepro (Italian for Juniper), Gi-ne-vra and Ginny are (Italian variant forms of Juniper). Again GiNiPRo, GiNi is Spirit of life and Pro, Bear.

Ki and Ki-Hi, Hi for feminine is the name of the Juniper Tree in the Armenian language.

Ancient sources.

Asherah, the goddess of rebirth.

Ancient Semitic Religion – a mother goddess. Consort to the Male God Anu.
Sumerian (3000 BC) writings write the name of Ashratum/Ashratu. ASTARTE?
Hittite (16th -13th c BC) as Asher-du(s) or Asher-tu(s) or Aserdu or Asertu.
Asherah, along with Astarte and Anath, were three great goddesses of the Canaanite pantheon. In Canaanite religion her primary role was that of mother goddess.
Asherah is generally considered identical with the Ugaritic (6000 -1200 BC) goddess ʼAṯirat.- A consort of the god El.
Consort to the God Yahweh the god of Israel and Judah during the Iron Age 930-586 BC. אשרה Hebrew. In the Bible Asherah is mostly associated with sacred trees or poles (Exodus 34:13, Judges 6:25).
According to the Oxford Companion to the Bible, Asherah was associated with lions, serpents and sacred trees.
Asherah – is mirrored as Hecate in the form of a Ceder Tree. KiDR

Asherah Epithets

Ancient texts contain many epithets for the Goddess Asherah. To mention a few:-

“Great Mother Goddess”
“Creator of Vegetation and Life”
“Queen of Heaven”
“Lady who Treads on the Sea”
“Mother of the Gods”
“Holiness”
“Hebrew Goddess”“Vital Force of Nature”
“Lion Lady”
“Eve”
“the One of the Serpent.”

THE ASHE-RAH POLE was called a sacred pole, it was said to be made of wood, a pole or poles, strapped together. It was a symbolic object standing close to the altar in early Semitic sanctuaries. It was part of the equipment of the temple of Jehovah in Jerusalem, till that is the Deuteronomy reformation of Josiah (2 Kings 23:6).
Asherah The Queen of Heaven in Judah and Jerusalem:

Let us break the word down, Aša is a word of Babylonian origin that established the graphic SS as a spinning cross, in UNION, representing the idea of the eternal mean, in subjective and objective reality. The reality that embraces all existence. Recognized in it is the great cosmic principle since it was said, all things happen according to it.

The 1234 B.C. Cypriot 11cm high stand, a cibarium with Asherah Pole, in the British museum.

In Hebrew the plural of "ashera" is "asherim," it is said to denote in plural, statues, images, columns, or pillars, poles, etc.

ASHA, says the Jewish Encyclopedia is a name of Babylonian origin. ASSA is the Accadian name for the Myrtle, Aphrodites Tree, the one that gave birth to Adonis the resultant of sacred prostitution. Assa and Asy are both generated from the SS Akkadian root both representing the great cosmic principal,two in one as love and the other as Myrtle, the ultimate symbol of UNITY. For the sea people of the Mediteranean it was "ASU,' the cuneiform tablets from Nineveh read therapeutic “asu.” Asi' as love, see Luwian Dic. In Hittite assija is too love, the original name of Cyprus was Asy, in Latin As- stands for union/love.

An Ashu, Ashur, or Assu-Rah, was referred to as the "Assyrian Tree of Life." The original Assyrian representation of the concept 'Ashur' was a pillar with seven branches on each side surmounted by a globular flower with three projecting rays, it was their metaphysical symbol. On the banks of the Euphrates the prayer uttered before the Ashur, the 'Merciful One, in the image of EL who was later said to have the power to raise the dead back to life'. The 'Merciful One,' was also referred to, as the higher abstract triad within and without of man; the triad of birth, life and death, which was also symbolized by the globular bud or flower with three rays.

According to the wiki, an Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother-goddess Asherah, the consort of El.

Asherah , Hebrew: אֲשֵׁרָה‎), in West Semitic mythology is mother goddess, who appears in a number of ancient sources including Akkadian writings by the name of Ashe ra tum/Ashe ra tu and in Hittite as Ashe rdu(s).

Asherah as a symbol of unity is generally considered as close to all other fertility goddesses especially with the Ugaritic goddess ishtar, ester,Astarte/Aphrodite and Hadassah.

Atarah (H) “. . . a royal crown”

Asherah/Athirat; Asherah is the goddess mentioned throughout the Old Testament. She began her reign as an Aegean goddess of the seas which explains why her name also means ‘sea treader’ in theoriginal Canaanite language of Ugarit. This goddess was merged with the Egyptian goddess, Hathor, during the Egyptian occupation of the Negev and Edom. The Egyptians named this merged goddess, Qetesh; the Egyptian pronunciation of the Hebrew word ‘qodesh’ which means holy. As a goddess adopted by the Semites who traded with the Aegean Islanders and were occupied by the Egyptians, she became the consort of El, the Queen of Heaven and the Creatrix of the gods. Asherah was also incorporated into the character of Eve/Hwh. Her name, Asherah, is often translated as ‘groves’ in the King James Bible (See Ex 34:13, Deut 7:5, 12:3, Jdg 3:7, 1 K 14:15 etc., etc.). The sycamore tree was sacred to Hathor/Qetesh which explains the presence of ‘poles’ or ‘groves’ next to the Hebrew altars. The tree of knowledge of good and evil (tree of wisdom or knowledge of magic and the healing arts), the serpent and Hwh (meaning serpent) also represented the goddess Athirat/Asherah, wife of El/Baal/YHWH/Wadd.

Hawa or Chawa (Eve) was an alternate name for Athirat/Asherah/Ilat, who was represented by the sacred sycamore tree or Asherah pole beside the altars of both Baal and El. In Serabit El Hadem she was known as Dat Bathani or Lady of the Serpent. In Phoenicia she was known as ‘rbt chawa ‘lt’ or Lady Snake Goddess. She was identified with the Egyptian goddess Hathor by the Kenite/Midianite miners at Timna. Asherah/Athirat as the goddess of Wisdom and consort of El/YHWH is described in Proverbs 8:22-31 and 9:1-6.

Athirat/Asherah, as a co-creator or demiurge, would have been equal to El/YHWH since she was uncreated and with him in the beginning (see Proverbs 8). As Hwh, she shared the same name as YHWH (het & chet are interchangeable in Semitic languages) which was a confirmation of her equal status. The epithet assigned to YHWH, ahyah asher ahyah, which is often translated as ‘I am that I am’, may be a formula praising Asherah. The middle word, ashr, may be a truncated form of her name which is spelled Ashrh in Hebrew. The ‘h’ suffix may have been chopped off by the Masoretes or the original Hebrew authors who then co-opted a phrase of praise to Asherah and applied it to YHWH. The Bible contains numerous verses which were originally written in praise of the Canaanite gods and applied them to YHWH. Psalm 82 is an excellent example of this use of Canaanite mythology in the Bible.

YHWH, like Asherah, was also represented by a serpent (nehushtan) which indicated that both gods began as serpent cults associated with trees. So, there was rivalry between the patriarchal serpent cult of YHWH and the corresponding matriarchal serpent cult of Athirat/Hwh. Yahwists were rigid proponents of ‘patriarchism’. Hwh/Athirat had to go, so the authors of Genesis had YHWH cripple her ophic icon and expel her from the Garden of Eden to live in pain and die a mortal death. That left YHWH, the patriarchal serpent creator god, who still shared her name, in control of both her icon snake and her tree. Asherah/Athirat had her own priestly cult called the Qadeshot meaning the ‘holy ones’. YHWH’s priestly cult was the Lawiat (Levites) meaning the ‘coiling ones’.

Macrocosmic Hwh (Eve) (Gen 3:14,15): In these verses, YHWH threatens both Eve and the serpent that tricked her into eating the forbidden fruit: “YHWH said to the serpent because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all of the wild animals; you shall crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you (the serpent) and the woman (Eve), between her offspring and your offspring, he (her male offspring) will bruise you in your head and you shall bruise him in his heel.” The reference in these verses is to the constellation Virgo whose feet are pointed toward the constellation Serpens (the Serpent). Above both constellations is the constellation Bootes. This constellation was known as Enlil to the Sumerians. Enlil was the patron of farmers, the profession of Adam and his offspring.

The word ASY or ASHI is a triliteral, a triad, which affirms the idea of god/unity/love. Thus the symbol, sigil or graphic S, or SS must be the root, love or unity or the goddess or the Myrtle. represents the idea of cause of unity.

The SS in Assah, also suggests the "still point" the bridge the "golden mean," the One in time, the first and last of every earth creation.

ACE, ISSI, OSY, ASSY, AES all suggest a union, or a monad, a balance, a pair. "As" does as in Latin and French represents UNION. AZA in Turkish is like the space between two complimentary opposites, like say the copula is in a verb uniting subjective with objective, love and desire between a man and a woman, the space that connects two poles together, a knot or a hinge between the door and the post a BRidge between two ends and AZI again in Turkish is the name for the Bosphorus passage into Black Sea.

Ashiah with the Yah ending rather than Rah, represents the "Material World." The Sepher Assia is known as the book of 'making' and Sepher Briah refers to the book of creation.

According to the system of the Palestinian Cabala, 'Asiyah is the lowest of the spiritual worlds containing the Ten Heavens and the whole system of mundane Creation. The light of the Sefirot emanates from these Ten Heavens, which are called the "Ten Sefirot of 'Asiyah"; and through them spirituality and piety are imparted to the realm of matter. This is the seat of the dark (murky) and impure powers (Cordovero,) "Pardes Rimmonim," (The garden of Pomegranates.)

The "Material World." is the final, the fourth in a logical progression and said to be the most dense of the four Kabalistic worlds or stages of manifestation. Assiah is a conceptual word/logos that is synonymous with any earthly materialization. Ashiah makes its appearance in the making of the material world, the making, the creating; therefore it could be said to be the cause, the 1,2, 3 that enters the 4, the cayse of the union of Being and Becoming of the OneAll." The unity within diversity, the eternal element.

Asah is the most relevant Hebrew synonym for bara. Bara translates as “maker” or “doer” in time, it is a verb that represents the eternal cycle, the One with the first and last, (Birth/Death) of every earth creation. Bria in the Veda also represents, the flow, as in the eternal cycle.
This logical abstraction, this idea of a live word/verb, a logos in triad, representing the'holy spirit' within the phenomenal world of every universe is a singular universal truth. ASY, like two snakes united, expresses the power within all manifestation responsible for creating every living thing.

Bara, or the phonemes BandR were the first and last of the cycle, the circa, translating to 'Poisis' in Greek, a combining form, as is A-Z, or Bau and Tau in Hebrew. If I am on target in Hebrew as assah and bara express, to OneAll the concept of eternal life or energy in time.

ASY =

The ancient Egyptian name for Cyprus was ASY/ASHIA (the uniting principal of creation in time. It was expressed as above in Hiorogliph. The journey from duality to unity, ASY.

To repeat the Dictionaries say that As- means (to be) in [IE *es- the verb (to be)]. In the Luwian Dic. Asi' means (to love). In Hittite assija means (to love). In th Luwian Dic and also in Latin it is used for union. As in Latin in French it is for union. As is the word for conjunction in English, now that should seal it for the skeptic, it drove it home for me the ultimate, SS being and becoming in one, that 'is as' good as gold?

ASSAY is the measure ie gold in the balance. ACE, ISSI, OSY, ASSY, AES ( old post) all suggest union, unseen positive or negative, the black or white or grey power that unites "All", both on the first day of creation as well as creation in time, as in the continuous "becoming of the becoming of the becoming". unity as in the "MONAD" the TREE , the cause, a compound word, the force that binds two into one and lives as a triad. The seed of life two in one. EN-OSIS in Greek is the call for union, unity, SS.

The Rah, or Ma suffix to ASHY-RAH and ASHY-MA could represent the fourth. The fourth through which the triadic cause manifests. Like in Ashy/Union through Rah or Ashy/Union through Ma. Each a regenerative power, like, Ma, Moon, Mother, Matter, water and Ra fire.
Ashera was known as the consort of Yahweh, EL then Ba then Ya, each were the Lords of Being and of the "Becoming of the Becoming of the Becomings "

Ashima, was a designation, or was the Sign-of-Baal. In its Aram [region of Syria] it forms the meaning or 'the Name.' would likely refer also to Asherah of the Sea the consort of El.

"Ashima = Ishtar = Venus" says the Encyclopedia Biblica, page 1946. It also notes that the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, consort of Tammuz, was often associated with the Phoenician goddess Astarte, consort of Baal. That said,

ASHI (Asi) is also the daughter of Ahura Mazda and Spenta Armaiti. Asi was the sister of Sraosha. Love and human sexuality is what the name is translated to there. Offerings of Haoma mixed with milk were made in her honor "Those who sacrifice with libations to Asi sacrifice with libations also to Mithra." (Piras: 1996).

Oh well as always the Indus valley pops its head; Varan-asi, or BaRa-n-ASY root v/b/p-r-s, was the City of Lord Shiva, it is situated on the bank of the sacred Ganges River and is one of the holiest cities of

India

The Assi River ( Ibrahim Al Asy, the Orontes in Lebanon) that was the birth place of ADONIS, translates today as " The Source of Blue". Asi is the original name of the classical Orontes river and El-Asy is the name the Egyptians referred to as Cyprus in the Bronze Age (see Hioroglyph above). Today in Arabic its Al not El, Al Asi.

ASY/ALASSYA/ASE/ASY/ASHIRAH/ASSIA/ASYTR/ ASHIRA are all designations that allude to the mystery of "existence," the central cause of unity in diversity, the most vital mystery, the cause of unity from duality. It seems that no matter how one defines existence, one ends up with the very early sound of ASY, ie ASIA.

NOW FOR THE ASHUR which was represented as the solar disc with wings and appearing also in Assyrian iconography with horns. The evidence indicates that SS represented the wings of R, the Sun represented the liquid fire and Light, the light and energy that flowed from the sun, not only the sun itself, but also the blue flame and all else one associates with the sun, its light and potency becomes the fire on earth, the Reh and Rah as masculine and or feminine. Many Assyrian kings had names that included Ashur, above all, Ashurnasirpal, Esarhaddon (Ashur-aha-iddina), and Ashurbanipal.
The symbol of the masculine sun god Ashur/Shamash was a disc, from which flowed streams of firewater; his rays apparently were "fertilizing tears", like the rays of the Egyptian sun god Ra. Horus, the Egyptian falcon god, was also symbolized as the winged solar disc.
ASHERA the Canaanite mother goddess was closer to earth and nature, She was associated with lionessess, serpents, and most importantly with the Juniper as the sacred trees of life/knowledge, originally the KY TREE. The word “asherah” in the Bible, most often refers to a stylized wooden tree, below is an image from the four sided CUBE Bronze Stand with a CIRCLE on top. Its how One squared a circle.
The Asherah name originally had roots in many of the early cultures of the Ancient Near East, especially in the literature of ancient Ugarit (The TREE of LIFE/DEATH is still a Juniper. 'KY' in Armenian for Juniper, KY, for KY-DR (Cedar in Lebanon and KY-BR for Cypress or KY-BR-ISSI.

AHERAH POLE, looked like the picture above, and it was originally made with the cut branches of a TREE of choice, a WILLOW tree for exanple. I made the one above, it is an exact copy of the original seen on the Cypriot 11cm high Cibarium in bronze. Sacred it appears, very reminiscent of the wooden pole or poles, said to be standing close to the altar in early Semitic sanctuaries, part of the equipment of the temple of Jehovah in Jerusalem till the Deuteronomic reformation of Josiah. I for one am sure that I have an exact representation of the Asherah Pole in all its original stylized glory, on the Cypriot stand above, where it stands as the central focal point of unity from duality, on the horizontal and vertical plain, attracting the craftsmen to bring together the fruits of their labors, while the main-man with the LYR/ HARP/Ky-NuR assists by setting the mood of unity, harmonically and with voice uniting the above and below as well as uniting the four elements and corners of the world, the elemental powers, Earth Air Fire Water, the four with the heavenly pair from above and below.

MORE OF THE STYLIZED TREE According to the Empedocles, a Greek philosopher, scientist and healer who lived in Sicily in the fifth century B.C., all matter is comprised of four "roots" or elements of earth, air, fire and water. Fire and air are outwardly reaching elements, reaching up and out, whereas earth and water turn inward and downward. Could be describing the TREE OF LIFE AND KNOWLEDGE.

In Empedocles' philosophy, the interaction of the four elements is influenced by the relationship between the two great life energies of Love and Strife. He described these elements not only as physical manifestations or material substances, but also as spiritual essences.

Empedocles explained that there are two great living forces in the universe, which he called Love (Philotês) and Strife (Neikos) and assigned to Aphrodite and Ares. According to Hesiod, the Goddess Love and the God Strife, offspring of Night (Nux), were ancient deities, predating the Olympians. The original Greek golden age was the Reign of Aphrodite, when all things were united and Lovepermeated the length and breadth of the well-rounded cosmic sphere. But Strife, as the River Styx surrounding the Sphere, broke its Unity, and cleaved the One into Many. It divided the four elements, which ever since combine and separate under the opposing actions of Love and Strife to produce the changing world with its manifold objects and qualities. As Heraclitus said, "Through Strife all things come into being." Empedocles said that Strife also divided the one immortal soul of Love into many individual souls, each comprising both Love and Strife in some proportion; these immortal souls are reborn time and again into mortal bodies, which are animated by mortal souls compounded from the four elements.

Empedocles adds a moral dimension to his argument by associating Love with good and Strife with evil. The influence of each principle waxes and wanes in a cycle of opposition that Empedocles calls "The Vortex." At the beginning of time, Love completely dominated the universe. As a consequence, the four elements were unified into a sphere and segregated according to their type-- a quarter of the sphere was water, a quarter was air, and the remaining half was divided equally by earth and fire. However, with the introduction of Strife "The Sphere" was gradually dissolved, slowly scattering the elements throughout the universe. The complete dissolution of The Sphere was achieved by the eventual predominance of Strife. However, Love began to gather strength again, causing the elements to congregate in clusters, and thereby creating life. Eventually, the elements will form a second unity, a second "Sphere," and the cycle will reset.

THE ASSYRIAN name for Cyprus 2345 B.C. which is the earliest reference we have was "Ky" or Gy, pronounced KEY in English and in Greek, writen Ky/Ku. This is most likely a reference that defines the terratories covered by TREES, the Ky, Ky-DR and Ky-BR.

The Cypriot Bronze Age Stand shown above, I call the Ciborium/Kyborium, was dug up in my back yard in Cyprus, at Curium to be exact. It is dated, approximately 1300 B.C. I write volumes about it in my posts, but what I posit is that it is a perfect representation of the Legend and tradition that says that Kinyras' Father San-dan, came to Cyprus with a small clan, about the year 1450 B.C. and brought with him four Bronze Age technology of the then industrial world, (1. the potters wheel. 2. the vertical industrial Loom. 3. the high temperature Furnace. 4. The HARP, most importantly reflects his name and semetic origin. He brought to Cyprus the technology of PROPHECY HARMONY AND UNITY. KNR is the Hebrew Ky-Nu-Ra/LYRE and NuRa in Arabic means THE SACRED LIGHT. The heavenly Lyre/Kinar the ancient Sumerian Euphratean, angle Harp tradition.

ASHIA THE MATERIAL WORLD. THE ABOVE EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH READS ASHIA, THE BRONZE AGE NAME FOR CYPRUS. THE FIRST SYMBOL A FEATHER STANDS FOR THE ONE THE RESULTANT, THE SECOND SYMBOL I SEE AS A GRAPHIC THAT SUGGESTS A COPULA THE DIRECTION TO ONE, MONAD, IN MOTION IN FLOW, IN TIME AND THE THIRD TWO FEATHERS STAND FOR TWO, DYAD, DUALITY. WHEN READ RIGHT TO LEFT, ONE STARTS WITH THE FORTH SYMBOL WHICH IS THE DETERMINATE. A SYMBOL THAT REPRESENTS LAND, TERRA, A PLACE, ON EARTH THE FOURTH, ON THE HORIZONTAL PLAIN. THE ONE FEATHER SOUNDS OUT AI THE SECOND SS, THE THIRD IA, TOGETHER THE TRIAD ARTICULATES THE VERB AS NOUN THE LOGOS, AS THE PLACE NAME, THE HOLY CREATIVE SPIRIT. AISSIA; ASY. CYPRUS IN BRONZE AGE.

For what it is worth 'Asherah' when translated from the Bible, came to also be translated as "groves" in old English grove was written graf . In Norwegian greivla translates as to intertwine.
Asherah would make sense as "graft" a grafted TREE, for in TURKISH, ASHI is used as in English GRAFT.

Asherah is a MAN MADE TREE, it is identified as the queen consort of the Sumerian god Anu, and Ugaritic El,^[1] the oldest deities of their respective pantheons,^[2] as well as Yahweh, the god of Israel and Judah.^[3] This role gave her a similarly high rank in the Ugaritic pantheon.^[4]
THE ASHERAH ON THE CYPRIOT COIN ABOVE, THE STYLIZED TREE OF LIFE INSIDE THE CIRCLE/CYCLE OF 28 DOTS TOPPING A SQUARE/CROSS MAKES A DOUBLE SYMBOL UNION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AS WELL AS FOR LIFE ETERNAL.

The Canaanite festival of Ishtar/Eostre is still celebrated today as Easter. It comes complete with a 40 days meat free fast, eggs, bunnies, and the Easter dinner is complete with roasted pig.

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ASHERAH STYLIZED MAN MADE TREE OF LIFE KNOWLEDGE.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2011

THE ASHERAH POLE **The tree of life is called the ashera in the OLD TESTAMENT.Juniper was the symbol of the Canaanite fertility goddess Ashera or Astarte in Syria.** The 'ashera is a natural or stylized tree in the fertility cult of Ashera.

**The tree of life is called the ashera in the OLD TESTAMENT.**

(In the Authorized version, Ashera is translated as 'grove'.)

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