Hello and thank you. You've never heard about Asheranity because I've made it up. Basically, I found the Semitic Goddess Asherah came closest to being a historical representation of the Goddess I believe in. I was actually looking for monotheism with a female representation of the godhead, but it seems that that doesn't exist except for the recent feminist branch of Wicca called Dianic Wicca, and there's several problems with that.

A consort of the Hebrew god YHWH (Judaism used to be polytheistic) was all I was going to get, but that's good enough. It turns out that during the Babylonian captivity, the TeNaCh was strongly revised to only include the god Yahweh, and if there are still references to Her, they are now in a negative context.

Though the source isn't too serious, there's a quote I particularly liked: "Wooden pillars erected in [h]er honor were so numerous that even YAHWEH himself felt a little threatened. These so-called 'Asherah Poles' are mentioned several times in the Old Testament — usually accompanied by the words 'Thou shalt not'." Source: http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/middle-eastern-mythology.php?deity=ASHERAH

It seems like they had to bury Her because they feared She'd become too powerful otherwise. And that's exactly what I'm trying to catch. To me, every Goddess is the same and I chose Asherah simply because She seemed to represent my ideas the most. I am not fond of Her in particular, only of the idea of a Goddess. I still have a lot to learn about the various Goddesses and the name / representation are still prone to revision if I find a better alternative. And that's the good thing about open-source: if I focus on explaining my ideas, someone else may come along and recognize it in another Goddess.

As for my ideas, I feel no need for a rush in writing them down, they're also still developing, but basically, I believe that a Goddess created both the good and evil parts of the universe. As Epicurus put it: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" I believe the existence of any god cannot be proven (agnosticism), but at the same time, I feel that the world just has to originate from a higher being (it's an axiom). Following from this, I ended up with Epicurus's second option: a malevolent Goddess.

She created the world because She felt a great desire to give, and people so that there was someone to give to. To the Goddess, everything is neutral, and it's us who decided to call certain things good, and other things evil. We do this because it's a useful way to express yourself, people know what you mean. But we've taken it rather far, to the point where we have to call the Goddess evil. She wanted to give us humans a taste of Her complexity through the issues of life that we experience, but we fail to appreciate it, we aren't being thankful. The goal in Asheranity isn't to forcefully eradicate evil through denial, nor is it to surrender to evil and stop trying to solve problems, but rather, to come to peace with it, realize that everything happens for a reason, and to become one with the cosmos.

I'd like to thank you for creating this site and for encouraging me to finally start writing things down. There's a lot more to it and I'm planning to slowly start publishing it. If any of my views seem troubling to you, critique is very welcome.