Beher was the pre-Christian Ethiopian (Aksumite) god of the Sea. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page Axum, or Aksum, is a City in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom of Aksum, a naval and trading power that ruled from the region ca He was the head of a trinity of pre-christian Ethiopian religion, together with Ashtar (the supreme god) and Ashtar's son Maher (god of war). A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Astar or Ashtar is an Astral God mentioned in inscriptions from the Ethiopian Axum Empire, dating around 200-400 AD