Annals of Global History Volume 2, Issue 2, 2020, PP 47-51 ISSN 2642-8172 Annals of Global History V2 ● 12 ● 2020 47 Egyptian and Canaanite Religious Convergence: The Mysterious “Queen of Heaven” Eka Avaliani * International Black Sea University, Faculty of Social sciences, Education and Humanities, Georgia *Corresponding Author: Eka Avaliani, International Black Sea University, Faculty of Social sciences, Education and Humanities, Georgia INTRODUCTION In ancient pantheons, each goddess could be perceived as the incarnation of a universal feminine “type.” The groups of those primordial goddesses from different areas of the Ancient Near East generally constituted a symbolic system of femininity and they referred to the transformative character of the feminine phenolmenon as well (Neumann 1991:21-29).I share the idea that certain historians of religions claim that each goddess was the archetype of “idea”, however, it is reasonable to presume that the respective “idea” (which, in other words, could be transformed into a function, a symbol, an image, a view, an aspect, and a character) was ambivalently correlated to masculine and to feminine archetypes. A female “Warrior Goddesses” were present in the Ancient Near Eastern pantheons, as well as a male “Warrior Gods”, who were supreme deities of their societies. In Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, patrons of kingship, state, or cities are equally male and female duties. Those goddesses controlled broadly all aspects of human and animal life, namely fertility, procreation, healing, and death. The male and female duties sometimes comprised similar functions, and they could be associated with the same archetypes, such as “water”, “earth”, "city", “statehood”, "neither world” (the Land of the Dead), or “heaven”. Only the ideas of “Mother -hood”, “Maternity”, nursing, and rising newborns were unquestionably associated with the central functions of the Archetypal Feminine, with several sub-connected aspects, and these features never connected with male gods. The idea of fertility, birth, and nursing was closely related with the Great Mother Goddess (Cameron 1981: 9-10). The elementary character of the Feminine – the Great Round, the Great Container – has a “supernatural reproductive function”: everything born of it belongs to it and remains subject to it (Neumann 1991: 25). The ancient fertility Goddess herself was never too far from mortal women in their everyday moments of need, whether in the marriage bed or at the birthing stool. Women in their reproduction functions “imitate” universal birth by giving symbolism of the Earth Mother Goddess. At the same time, the human females, reduced to little more than a womb-vassal, were the mortal images of the Earth Mother (Neumann 1991: 42-44). In our paper, we would like to highlight the issues of Egyptian and Canaanite religious convergence which is visible from the first millennium BC. At the beginning of the Iron Age, the ancient „Goddess religion‟ had long been in decline, but the mixed-gender pantheon instituted by religious leaders was rising alongside Jewish monotheism in Palestine. ABSTRACT Since the publication of R. Patai‟s book The Hebrew Goddess in 1967, there has been an increasing flow of studies investigating the place of the goddess in Israelite religion. The reason for this attention paid to the goddess is not difficult to find: in the 1960s and 1970s there was a growing awareness that religions with only a single male deity maintained and reinforced the subservient position of women living under their impact. A little later, scholars of ancient Near Eastern religions, including that of Israel, began to pay particular attention to goddess-cults. The paper highlights the issues of Egyptian and Canaanite religious convergence which is visible from the first millennium BC and focuses on goddess-cult in the Old Testament. Analyzing the famous passages' prophet Jeremiah, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the expression "the Queen of Heaven" contains the allegory. The author presumes that under the title of" the Queen of Heaven" could be hidden the Goddess Hathor, who was a „type‟ of Queen of Heaven and worshiped by Israelite women.