becuae i nerd the fuck out on information, i remembered something interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
Asherah 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]
what's voats thoughts on this diety, and whether or not she'd be a "live goddess" in the current day?
the implications of this you gotta understand, is that if true, semitic religions were definitely a polytheistic pantheon at one point and not a monethestic pantheon, which is two entirely different types of religion from the ground up
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cyclops1771 ago
IIRC, Moses' group of Israelites left Egypt, stayed hidden in the desert until they conquered the Canaanites, and had converted to monotheism during their time in the desert.
That means that the YHWH worshipers could be both polytheistic and monotheistic, depending on the sect. Those who went through the desert ordeal went monotheistic, those that stayed close to their Assyrian roots stayed polytheistic.
theoldones ago
going forward from that, which original sect then became which modern sect?
cyclops1771 ago
Hard to tell, because of the whole Muhammadanism overtake of the region.
Zoroastrianism had monotheistic tendencies - a single creator god. Maybe they were an offshoot. I just picked up a book about Qataban, but I'm no expert.