Chương 380: 9.iii

Asherah once had a husband. He once existed. Of that I am certain. But beyond that? There is little else we can say of him. Just that there was once a father to this mother, a husband to this wife. There are three places in the oldest hymns to the lady who walks the waters that speak of him. But none of even the oldest chants I've found in the records have ever named this faceless unknown husband, this lord to her lady. Only that he was and he was divine.

In entreaties recorded a century after these oldest texts on describing the correct ways of asking for her protection in child birth, fine weather in spring and fair travel on river and sea, his existence as divinity has been completely replaced with her being the 'wife of man' with no indication of his nature. This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

Another century more modern there is the brief offshoot of the Asheraita cult, a following which held that she was in fact wife to all men, a divine spouse and a part of all marriages. Who for the Asheraita was even a primary wife over their mortal betrothed. The texts of this group and their prayers proclaim through this bond she is thus the mother of all children of men. The texts of their rituals are secured and forbidden from general use.

The Asheraita were purged by the final Cantor Republic for the crime of sinful invocation of the divine and matriarchy. After this censure all mention or record of Asherah's marital status was censored from all prayers or entreaties to her lest they risk a resurgence of the depravity of the Asheraita and their acts. As with so many other female goddesses she is now not known to have ever married. But there was once a husband to this wife, just like so many others. I wonder what happened to them.

- On Divine Widows from the Journal of Angelos Priest and archivist of the Pantheon in Old Cantor