 Seeking to be hidden from the Meccans who were looking for him, he took temporary refuge with his companion, Abu Bakr, in a cave.In the work by anthropologist Raphael Patai entitled "The Hebrew Goddess", the author argues that the term "shekhinah" refers to a goddess by comparing and contrasting scriptural and medieval Jewish Kabbalistic source materials.Patai draws a historic distinction between the "shekhinah" and the Matronit.