God Had A Wife

[Bled Welder]

The Dude abides, does he not?


I just had an interesting thought.  And I was driving!  Podding through Central City’s glorious neural network.  If you look at the picture on the cover of
the Oxford History of Egypt, consider for a moment that the humans themselves
are symbols…of consciousness.  And
following that, that we ourselves are something like symbols of
consciousness.  Anyway it’s one of my
running considerations that our subconciousness may be unfolding into
consciousness.

> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:54:34 -0500
> Subject: Re: God Had A Wife
> From: fqmorris at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> Also significant, Stavrakopoulou believes, "is the Bible's admission
> that the goddess Asherah was worshiped in Yahweh's Temple in
> Jerusalem. In the Book of Kings, we're told that a statue of Asherah
> was housed in the temple and that female temple personnel wove ritual
> textiles for her."
> 
> J. Edward Wright, president of both The Arizona Center for Judaic
> Studies and The Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, told
> Discovery News that he agrees several Hebrew inscriptions mention
> "Yahweh and his Asherah."
> 
> J. Edward Wright, president of both The Arizona Center for Judaic
> Studies and The Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, told
> Discovery News that he agrees several Hebrew inscriptions mention
> "Yahweh and his Asherah."
> 
> "Asherah was not entirely edited out of the Bible by its male
> editors," he added. "Traces of her remain, and based on those traces,
> archaeological evidence and references to her in texts from nations
> bordering Israel and Judah, we can reconstruct her role in the
> religions of the Southern Levant."
> 
> Asherah -- known across the ancient Near East by various other names,
> such as Astarte and Istar -- was "an important deity, one who was both
> mighty and nurturing," Wright continued.
> 
> "Many English translations prefer to translate 'Asherah' as 'Sacred
> Tree,'" Wright said. "This seems to be in part driven by a modern
> desire, clearly inspired by the Biblical narratives, to hide Asherah
> behind a veil once again."
 		 	   		  
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