British Museum EA , upper register of limestone stele of chief craftsman Qeh. Deir el-Medina Dynasty As such, it can be attached to almost any goddess, including the whole of the A-team: Anat, Astarte, Asherah and Athirat.
The question is: did there exist an independent goddess named Qedeshet at all? She is not known from any Canaanite or Ugaritic texts or inscriptions.
Rather, she only appears as a named goddess in Egypt. There is much about this myth that is obscure, and nothing substantial that sheds light on Genesis Some Hellenistic era Phoenician traditions preserved in the writings of Philo of Byblos have been adduced as comparable to the themes and characters in Genesis 6: A.
These—he says—by rubbing sticks together discovered fire, and they taught its use. And they begot sons who in size and eminence were greater [than their fathers] and whose names were given to the mountain ranges over which they ruled, so that they Kassios, the Lebanon, the Anti-Lebanon, and the Brathys were called after them.
From these—he says—were born Samemroumos who is also [called] Hypsouranios and Ousoos. And—he says—they called themselves after their mothers, since the women of that time united freely with anyone upon whom they chanced. If these traditions were about primeval humanity, as the text suggests, then the comparison with Genesis would be warranted, particularly the birth of giants and perhaps the sexual adventures of women in primeval times.
