Asherah poles

In an ancient method of sacrificial killing, the priests placed the sacrificial king in a Birchwood box and suspended it between two tall poles (Asherah poles).Allowed three loaves, one for each aspect of the deity or the Triple Goddess, he remained suspended at God s mercy, between heaven and earth, until he decayed and his remains blew away. 

Canaanite Ugaritic texts from the fourteenth century BCE call the two pillars cutter-twins. They are the Asherah poles called Shacharu and Shalim, meaning integration and completion respectively." These two pillars support the deathly net of Asherah, the most ancient of all mother goddesses. 

Morris Silver comment on Ugaritic text KTU 1.23 see also Jeremiah 17 1-2 for Asherah poles... 

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