Never heard anything like this before
Is this accurate info on this God Ashteroth?
@MMS
I know you study a lot of ancient Gods. Did you know this?
of course
that said, lets remember the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Nahor (river) etc...
God made man in his own image, after his likeness, male and female created he them.
then in Genesis 2, he makes a deep sleep fall over "Adam" whom he presumably either made
- on the first page
- or on the second page, meaning there is an image of god that is male/female separate from Adam.
The Ashtoreth, Athirat, Asherah etc are all allegories of the "great house" or the "Universe" as you would call it in science.
So when the priests worshipped the "great house" they were paying homage to old creation rituals that would not make sense to you (not really to me either)
In either case, the "languages" that existed in Babylon and before hand did not "disappear" they just arent taught to people. People want to know things like this but their unbelief and the world they live in make it difficult to contemplate ancient things IMO
From my perspective making sense of the polytheistic cultures and the monotheistic present (the world as spoken by YHWH) it is a worthless endeavor to assume yourself a creator on equal footing with that God. Which is what those ancient cultures were doing (see Amorites) basically baking new spiritual bread and hoping the "great house" replicates it.
@Koichos could probably answer this better.