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Wisdom is a fertility goddess whose charm and seductive powers attract young students to follow after her. Thus she is the hierodule who looks out of her latticed window at foolish youths too easily seduced by the wiles of Woman Folly (Prov. 6-23),1 and the fertility goddess who has constructed her temple and initiates her cult with a sacred festival to which the simple are invited (Prov. 1-6). She is both the life-giving deity who, like her divine prototypes (Maat, Isis, and Ishtar), holds in her right hand longevity and in her left wealth and honor (Prov.
5. 'The Creation by Atum', ANET, 3. 2. Metaphors of Cosmology and Mythic Paradigms 33 'The Lady of the womb' and the 'Lady of form-giving', she was the power of the womb, nurturing the fetus to maturity. 1 However, her most important task was the engendering, care, and birthing of kings, before eventually giving them their insignia for rule. 2 The personal god was the father who engendered the worshippers, and the goddess the mother who gave them birth. They were also the caring parents who protected their children from demonic powers, brought luck and success, interceded with the gods, and guided in the proper paths.
5 Gods were also the parents of humans, including both humanity in general and kings. In Sumer Ninhursaga was the earth-mother goddess, 'the mother of all children', both humans and gods. Called 1. Jacobsen, The Treasures of Darkness, 168. 2. ANET, 60-61. 3. Andre" Caquot and Maurice Sznycer, Ugaritic Religion (Iconography of Religions 15; Leiden: Brill, 1980), 8. 4. Among El's epithets are several which point to the probable existence of a theogonic myth in at least an early phase of Canaanite religion: El and Asherah are the parents of the gods; El is qnyn ('our father') and ab adm (the 'Father of Humanity'), and the bny bnwt ('creator of creatures').