Ashera, or more precisley, Ashera IL, originally meant “the one whom god helps”, the very first angel or goddess, energy beginning to take form.
Because she was so close to the Ra IL and never went so far away, she could understand the source, knowing the goodness of creation. She often visited middle earth to talk to the people that they do not start to settle in the darkness too.
But some did not listen and others followed them, and so a third world formed, ruled by demons and shadows finally.
Here Ashera could not go to tell her stories, the people living in the darkness forgot her name, and thus they forgot the knowledge about the Ra IL.
A demon was enthroned instead, a demiurge without soul, and they called it God. And this god assumed that he was the light and he defined the source as darkness.
This demon started to concentrate troops to attack and exterminate middle earth first, and Ra IL, the source, the energy, the seed of all, finally.
When the troops reached middle earth they met Ashera. But they could not bear the beauty of her female form. They closed their eyes and ears.
But she knew that the sleep is the little brother of death, where she still could reach them, and so she started to sit at the headboards of sleeping places at night, to whisper into the ears, to send dreams.
But many people remember a shadow only after awakening, touched by the wing of a something, like a dark bird.
They painted her black finally, feared her, masculinized her, called her Azrail, the malik al-maut, the angel of death.
If any man have an ear, let him hear.
A She Ra IL
May 9, 2010
