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Did some research on my candy corn snake's name Asherra, and found this:
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Not spelled the same -- I was spelling it phonetically.
"Asherah" was a mother goddess in ancient Assyria and Israel, and probably long before then. She was strongly associated with trees, and eventually came to symbolize or be somehow connected to the Tree of Life in Hebrew mythology and also with the Kabbalah.
This particular snake (Asherra) gave me some trouble and I thought she wasn't going to make it. For more on that, see the "Mouse Butts" entry in the memories section... her other body expired the previous year from exactly the same malady... She since overcame the problem and is doing well.
I had heard the word "Asherra" in some context - I think someone was reading me a passage out of a book, but never connected it with historic records of the tree goddess. Knifty.
(dead link removed).
Not spelled the same -- I was spelling it phonetically.
"Asherah" was a mother goddess in ancient Assyria and Israel, and probably long before then. She was strongly associated with trees, and eventually came to symbolize or be somehow connected to the Tree of Life in Hebrew mythology and also with the Kabbalah.
This particular snake (Asherra) gave me some trouble and I thought she wasn't going to make it. For more on that, see the "Mouse Butts" entry in the memories section... her other body expired the previous year from exactly the same malady... She since overcame the problem and is doing well.
I had heard the word "Asherra" in some context - I think someone was reading me a passage out of a book, but never connected it with historic records of the tree goddess. Knifty.