Is Ashra a God of the Jews?

Even in the ancient times, there would be a kind of competition of folk religion. There are catholics who syncrotize a catholicism with other religions. And the same thing happened in israel. You had the prophets, and at least in during various periods, the temple authorities were just worshipping this one god. But then you also had a temptation to worship other gods because of the mixing with hecanaanites. Which is one of the, a, one of the a ke themes in the old testament is how israel needs to be distinct. It needs to not follow the ways of the people around it. but they were tempted to do that, and some of