For instance, shekinah is an essence that would be akin saying someone "walks with God" today - more based on the home (e.g. "God dwells there" etc) and not a person as was the old focus. It's similarity to the holy spirit was from the Rabbinical literature where it became more of a discrete if ephemeral concept.
The female companion to El is Ashearah. It was El and his Ashearah that were given offerings before El became Yahweh. And Ashearah was worshipped separately from Yahweh for many generations before it was stamped out in, iirc, Elijah's time preceeding Solomon.
I believe some points are mistaken.
For instance, shekinah is an essence that would be akin saying someone "walks with God" today - more based on the home (e.g. "God dwells there" etc) and not a person as was the old focus. It's similarity to the holy spirit was from the Rabbinical literature where it became more of a discrete if ephemeral concept.
The female companion to El is Ashearah. It was El and his Ashearah that were given offerings before El became Yahweh. And Ashearah was worshipped separately from Yahweh for many generations before it was stamped out in, iirc, Elijah's time preceeding Solomon.