alongside or perhaps tagging along behind you? You’d still be at the head of the line, of course.” On that last point, archaeologists have dug up hundreds of little clay figurines in the southern kingdom, Judah, dating to the seventh century BCE (the decades before the Babylonian exile). These figurines probably represent the Canaanite fertility goddess Asherah and were found in people’s homes. Maybe they kept them on the mantle or nightstand.
