{"id":10731,"date":"2020-10-25T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10731"},"modified":"2020-10-25T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:23:56","slug":"the-queen-of-heavens-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10731","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of Heaven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/514px-Asherah_13th_century_BC_Israel_Museum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10732\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/514px-Asherah_13th_century_BC_Israel_Museum.jpg 514w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/514px-Asherah_13th_century_BC_Israel_Museum-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><figcaption>Asherah, 13th century BC, Israel Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deborah L. Davitt<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nYou tore down our mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s temples,\nfearing that to give glory to her,\nthe Queen of Heaven,\nshe who treads the sea,\u00c2\u00a0<em>Asherah,<\/em>\nwould take glory from him\nwho was her husband,\nwho divided his land from her sea,\n<em>Elkunirsa<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore lately El\n(which means\u00c2\u00a0<em>Lord\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>to those who remember\ntheir Hittite\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmost don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, these days).\n\u00c2\u00a0\nYou preferred to wander the desert\nfar from her shores;\nyou forgot her forgiveness, tenderness,\nwhen faced with his wrath.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nWe forgot nothing on her shores,\ntransformed to guardian pillars\nlicked with her salt;\n\u00c2\u00a0\nyou abandoned our mother, your mother,\nso we came for your daughters\nwith all the tenderness you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d forgotten,\ntaught them to find their wings within.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nYou called yourselves blessed\nwhen you saw the grandchildren,\nso strong, intelligent, and noble,\nbut as we slumbered, stone once more,\nyou forgot, and they forgot.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nWe never forget.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nAwakening inside our descendants,\ndaughters of men and gods,\nwe wonder why you fear us so\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\nis it for the divine grace\nburning under our skins?\nIs it for the wings of flame\nyou cannot see, but surely sense?\n\u00c2\u00a0\nThis time, we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let you forget,\nsearing our mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name\ninto your souls\nwith a brand\nof molten salt.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah L. Davitt You tore down our mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s temples, fearing that to give glory to her, the Queen of Heaven, she who treads the sea,\u00c2\u00a0Asherah, would take glory from him who was her husband, who divided his land from her sea, Elkunirsa\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore lately El (which means\u00c2\u00a0Lord\u00c2\u00a0to those who remember their Hittite\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmost don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, these days). \u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10733,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions\/10733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}