Asherah: The shrine of a deity overthrown by patriarchs. The Hebrew word Asherah has its origin in Asura, meaning Almighty God, to the Hindus. More correctly, however, asher in Hebrew means happiness, so Asherah originally meant the All-happy One or the God or Deity of Joy.

Asura: Means almighty God to the Hindus. This fact should be seen in context of the presentation of God as commanding vegetarianism in the first chapter of Genesis. The overthrow of the Asherah devotees, and the destruction of their shrines, was the overthrow of the original vegetarian faith of Judaism.

     "Make not mention of other gods, they shall not be heard on your lips." Ex: 23: 13

     Why would Jacob name his son Asher after the very Asherah who had vegetarian adherents, after the very deity whose shrines the orthodox would later tear down? Why would Shem, the son of Noah, name his second son Assur? It is totally inconsistent to be in a lineage supporting carnivorism while you name your children after deities affirming vegetarians.

    Orthodox Jewish law forbid Jews even to utter the names of false gods, much less to name their children after them.  For the student of the Torah and orthodox Judaism, this is the stuff of comedy, for the names of Sheva, Rama, Ummah, Oseo, Isa, and Asherah or Asher--as anyone even slightly familiar with a Concordance knows--literally pervade the original days of Judaism.  The only explanation is the logical one: originally these were not false gods. They were simply the deities of the Hindu pantheon.  So too, the Sabbath is clearly the day of Saba, or Shiva.  There's really no getting around it, friends: orthodox Judaism is a heresy against its vegetarian and egalitarian origins. It  is a house of cards attempting to say that an all-loving Deity supports the horrendously evil institution of human slavery,  the brutality of animal slaughter, and the impure and poisonous food of animal flesh. Only those addicted to such evils, or, more relevantly, to the profits they may accrue from such beliefs, would support such moral absurdities.