The Many Names of Heavenly Mother

I have decided that my Sunstone presentation for 2025 is going to be entitled “A Year of Worshiping Heavenly Mother”. as part of this, I have decided to look up some historical names for her.

First, I am starting with the Caananite God El/YHWH’s Consort, Asherah, and seeing how she has been referenced across different cultures. Here are some that I found:

‘Anat
‘Srh
Abdi-a-si-ir-te
Asertum
Ashart
Ashera
Asherah-hathor
Asherata
Asherim
Asherot
Ashratum
Ashtaroth
Ashtoreth
Astarte
Asyma
Athirat
Branch Goddess
Chokhmah
Elat
Hai
Lady Asherah of the Sea
Lady of the Steppe
Progenitress of the Gods
Qudshu
Qudshu-Astarte-Anat
Queen of Heaven
Shekinah
The Lion Lady
Asirata
Inanna

1 “Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel Paperback” by William G. Dever

2 “Faces of the Gods: Baal, Asherrah, and Molek and Studies of the Hebrew Scriptures” by Reverend Rebecca Doyle

3 Tsohar

4 Air, Earth, Water, and Fire

5 The Divine Feminine in the Apocrypha