Lilith, who has the upper body of a beautiful woman and a lower body of fire, carries the fiery resentment of the Moon. She is the seducer of men and the strangler of children the latter role is sometimes attributed to Naamah.
Lilith’s powers are at their peak when the Moon is dark. To end it, God diminished the Moon and made it rule the night.
In the beginning, the Sun and Moon were equal, and this created a rivalry. In the Zohar, Lilith arises from an evil shell or husk, a Kelippah, that is created in the waning of the Moon. They are the lower aspects of another androgynous twin, Adam and Eve. In a text preceding the Zohar, Lilith and Samael are born joined as androgynous twins from an emanation beneath the throne of glory. The lilim are hairy beings, having hair everywhere on their faces and bodies except their heads. She became the bride of Samael, the Devil (in some accounts called Ashmodai, or Asmodeus), in a union arranged by the Blind Dragon, an entity who has been castrated so that his offspring will not overcome the world. The daughters all practice Sorcery, seduction, and strangling. There, as queen of Zemargad or queen of the desert, she engaged in promiscuity, including with Demons, and gave birth to 100 Demonic offspring called lilim every day. When she saw that Adam would gain power over her, she uttered the ineffable name of God and flew off to a cave in the desert near the Red Sea. In the midrash, God created Lilith in the same way as he did Adam, but he used filth and impure sediment instead of dust from the earth.Īdam and Lilith were at odds with each other from the beginning, and she refused to lie beneath him during intercourse. The earliest account of Lilith appears in a midrash, Alpha Bet Ben Sira, which attempts to resolve the discrepancies in the Torah about the creation of Lilith in Genesis, followed by the creation of Eve just a few passages later. She was forced, however, to swear to the three angels that whenever she saw their names or images on an amulet, she would leave infants and mothers alone.Īfter the Fall, Adam spent 130 years separated from Eve, during which Lilith went to him and satisfied him during sleep. Lilith took revenge by launching a reign of terror against women in childbirth, newborn infants-particularly males-and men who slept alone. The angels found her in the Red Sea and threatened her with the loss of 100 of her Demon children every day unless she returned to Adam. God sent three angels, Sanvi, Sansanvi, and Semangelaf, to take Lilith back to Eden. Adam complained to God that his wife had deserted him. Lilith demanded equality with Adam and, failing to get it, left him in anger. She is best known as the first wife of Adam, created by God as twins joined in the back. Lilith appears in different guises in various texts. In medieval Europe, she was often portrayed as the wife, concubine, or grandmother of Satan. She is sometimes associated with other characters in legend and myth, including the queen of Sheba and Helen of Troy.
In addition to Jewish folklore, Lilith appears in various forms in Iranian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Canaanite, Persian, Arabic, Teutonic, Mexican, Greek, English, Asian, and Native American legends. She is the original “scarlet woman” and sometimes described as a screech owl, blind by day, who sucks the breasts or navels of young children or the dugs of goats.
She is the dark aspect of the Mother Goddess. in the book of Isaiah she or beings similar to her also are found in myths from other cultures around the world. Lilith is a major figure in Jewish Demonology, appearing as early as 700 B.C.E. Lilith is a female Demon of the night and Succubus who flies about searching for newborn children to kidnap or strangle and sleeping men to seduce in order to produce Demon children.
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