Asherah and her Trace

This paper focuses on finding similarities between Jewish and Korean female deities. The basic assumption is that Asherah is a Jewish fertility goddess and a Korean counterpart of this deity is Samsun Halmuny. The first similarity between two deities is that they are not official or national religious rites like Judaism or Buddhism. In other words, they belong to nonconventional religious rituals. The second similarity between two deities is that they are visible entities while YHWH is invisible deity. The third similarity between them is that they mirror their milieu or Leben in Sitzen. That is, they reflect their social or cultural environment. These three similarities demonstrate the correlation between human lives and religion and reveal an important truth: Religion cannot exist without humans and vice versa.