An Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother-goddess Asherah, consort of El [REF].
The asherim were also cult objects related to the worship of the fertility goddess Asherah, the consort of either Ba'al or, as inscriptions from Kuntillet 'Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom attest, Yahweh,[REF] and thus objects of contention among competing cults.