Interesting and necessary question. I would argue that if indeed the Goddess Asherah was erased and demonized by history in attempt to control and suppress, and one considers the spiritual idea of “as above, so below” then yes, history could indeed be boiled down into such conciseness.
I’d go as far as to say that perhaps, when concentrated, other big concepts ie. racism, nationalism could be brought into discussion by observing what lifestyle the condemned group values and it’s proximity to a female archetype. For example, melanated peoples traditionally have deep earthly understandings and veneration practices that would have likely been Asherah worship had it not been removed from the holy texts. These pockets of people in much of Africa, Mexico, and native indigenous of the west still support matriarchal homage in the community at least and goddess worship at most. And we know that these are groups that face heavy racism and bias. It would stand to reason that the condemnation of these marginalized groups, while many different reasons are offered, actually stems from the innate belief that woman and her associated traits of being wild, intuitive, mysterious and unable to be controlled is at the heart of all hatred and suppression across history.
Interesting and necessary question. I would argue that if indeed the Goddess Asherah was erased and demonized by history in attempt to control and suppress, and one considers the spiritual idea of “as above, so below” then yes, history could indeed be boiled down into such conciseness.
I’d go as far as to say that perhaps, when concentrated, other big concepts ie. racism, nationalism could be brought into discussion by observing what lifestyle the condemned group values and it’s proximity to a female archetype. For example, melanated peoples traditionally have deep earthly understandings and veneration practices that would have likely been Asherah worship had it not been removed from the holy texts. These pockets of people in much of Africa, Mexico, and native indigenous of the west still support matriarchal homage in the community at least and goddess worship at most. And we know that these are groups that face heavy racism and bias. It would stand to reason that the condemnation of these marginalized groups, while many different reasons are offered, actually stems from the innate belief that woman and her associated traits of being wild, intuitive, mysterious and unable to be controlled is at the heart of all hatred and suppression across history.