Although I’ve mostly been focusing on the history of Beith She’an and its Bacchic cults and mythology, as well as Dionysos’ interactions with Yahweh, Ašērah, Ašmedai, and Masṭēmā, among others, I suspect that a reconstructed pantheon of Israel, Judah, Samaria, and Edom (along with the Canaanite, Babylonian and Egyptian divinities who were incorporated into it) is going to be central to this whole Starry Ram thing. I don’t know that I’ll include all 70 of the bēnē Ĕlōhīm, but I don’t include all of the Greco-Italian Gods in the Starry Bull tradition or the Norse and Black Sea divinities in the Starry Bear, so I don’t think that’s such a big deal. I’m mostly sticking to the ones I’ve encountered and/or are drawn to research. It’s still producing fascinating results.

For instance, it looks like the early Israelites originally had a Council of Gods which was governed by ‘El/ʿElyōn/’Elōah and his consort Ašērah; they ruled over Qos, Aštārit, Qeteb, Deber, Mōt, Rešep̄, Anat-Bethēl and Ašam-Bethēl, Ešem-Bethēl and Herem-Bethēl, Ba’al, Šamaš, Nabû, Dagon, Yarikh, Hathor, Khnum, etc. and a relative latecomer who was the God of animals and vegetation, storms and war, volcanoes and madness, and went by Yah, Yahō, or Yahweh.

This God had a bitter (possibly sibling) rivalry with Ba’al, and after defeating a series of monsters to prove his prowess, challenged ‘El for the Kingship of the Gods. After defeating him, Yahweh absorbed his predecessor’s powers, attributes and names, and took Ašērah as his bride.

No wonder he and Dionysos get along so well!