
So Many Gods!
Data Over Dogma
Adonai and Ashera
When Adonai becomes sort of ascends to the head of the council, do you think that there was a story behind that that we have now lost? You know, either El somehow loses that position or seeds it to Adonai. Do you think they just sort of conflated El with Adonai at some point and it just they merged or something? I think the data indicate that they merge probably between around 1,900 BCE. And so in this way, Adonai not only take over El's rule over the pantheon, but Adonai also takes over El's consort, El's wife, Ashera.
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