With regard to Asherah, this was seen by Jewish authorities as religious contamination from neighboring tribes. As such it is properly seen as exceptional and useful only in the negative sense of demonstrating the condemnation of the Jews towards any effort to feminize YHWH.
"Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger."

—Jeremiah 7:17–18



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