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This item has not been rated yet. The Talmudic and Yiddish use of Lilith is cognate with the Hebrew. The Sumerian female demons lili have no etymological relation to Akkadian lilu , "evening". After ten years of growth, she comes to harvest it and finds a serpent living at its base, a Zu bird raising young in its crown, and that a ki-sikil-lil-la-ke made a house in its trunk. Gilgamesh is said to have killed the snake, and then the zu bird flew away to the mountains with its young, while the ki-sikil-lil-la-ke fearfully destroys its house and runs for the forest. Suggested translations for the Tablet XII spirit in the tree include ki-sikil as "sacred place", lil as "spirit", and lil-la-ke as "water spirit".

A connection between the Gilgamesh ki-sikil-lil-la-ke and the Jewish Lilith was rejected by Dietrich Opitz [19] and rejected on textual grounds by Sergio Ribichini Kramer's translation of the Gilgamesh fragment was used by Henri Frankfort [23] and Emil Kraeling [24] to support identification of a woman with wings and bird-feet in the Burney Relief as related to Lilith, but this has been rejected by later sources, including the British Museum , which is in current possession of the piece. The terracotta plaque depicts a beautiful, naked goddess-like sylph with bird-like features who stands atop two lions and between two owls.

Although once believed to be the actual image of Lilith, it is now thought to possibly represent Inanna , the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, beauty, war, and sexual desire. The Arslan Tash amulets are limestone plaques discovered in at Arslan Tash , the authenticity of which is disputed.

Albright , Theodor H. Gaster , [25] and others, accepted the amulets as a pre-Jewish source which shows that the name Lilith already existed in the 7th century BCE but Torczyner identified the amulets as a later Jewish source. The only occurrence is in the Book of Isaiah The word lilit or lilith only appears once in the Hebrew Bible , while the other seven terms in the list appear more than once and thus are better documented.

The reading of scholars and translators is often guided by a decision about the complete list of eight creatures as a whole. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. Eberhard Schrader [32] and Moritz Abraham Levy [33] suggest that Lilith was a goddess of the night, known also by the Jewish exiles in Babylon. However, this view is challenged by some modern research such as by Judit M.

Blair who considers that the context indicates unclean animals. The Septuagint translates the reference into Greek as onokentauros , apparently for lack of a better word, since also the se'irim , " satyrs ", earlier in the verse are translated with daimon onokentauros. The "wild beasts of the island and the desert" are omitted altogether, and the "crying to his fellow" is also done by the daimon onokentauros.

The early 5th-century Vulgate translated the same word as lamia. The translation is, "And demons shall meet with monsters, and one hairy one shall cry out to another; there the lamia has lain down and found rest for herself". Wycliffe's Bible preserves the Latin rendering lamia:. Then the King James Version And I, the Instructor, proclaim His glorious splendour so as to frighten and to te[rrify] all the spirits of the destroying angels, spirits of the bastards , demons, Lilith, howlers, and [desert dwellers] As with the Massoretic Text of Isaiah Baumgarten identified the unnamed woman of The Seductress 4Q as related to female demon.

Collins [42] regards this identification as "intriguing" but that it is "safe to say" that 4Q is based on the strange woman of Proverbs 2, 5, 7, Her house sinks down to death, And her course leads to the shades. All who go to her cannot return And find again the paths of life.

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Her gates are gates of death, and from the entrance of the house She sets out towards Sheol. None of those who enter there will ever return, And all who possess her will descend to the Pit. Lilith does not occur in the Mishnah. The above statement by Hanina may be related to the belief that nocturnal emissions engendered the birth of demons:. The Midrash Rabbah collection contains two references to Lilith. The first one is present in Genesis Rabbah Chavvah ha-Rishonah , analogically to the phrase Adam ha-Rishon , i.

Although in the medieval Hebrew literature and folklore, especially that reflected on the protective amulets of various kinds, Chavvah ha-Rishonah was identified with Lilith, one should remain careful in transposing this equation to the Late Antiquity. The second mention of Lilith, this time explicit, is present in Numbers Rabbah The midrash develops the story of Moses' plea after God expresses anger at the bad report of the spies.

Moses responds to a threat by God that He will destroy the Israelite people. Moses pleads before God, that God should not be like Lilith who kills her own children.

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IV, 22 , He is now destroying! As that Lilith who, when she finds nothing else, turns upon her own children, so Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land An individual Lilith, along with Bagdana "king of the lilits", is one of the demons to feature prominently in protective spells in the eighty surviving Jewish occult incantation bowls from Sassanid Empire Babylon 4th—6th century CE.

Amen, Amen, Selah, Halleluyah! The pseudepigraphical [50] 8th—10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira is considered to be the oldest form of the story of Lilith as Adam's first wife. Whether this particular tradition is older is not known. Scholars tend to date the Alphabet between the 8th and 10th centuries CE. The work has been characterized as satirical. In the text an amulet is inscribed with the names of three angels Senoy , Sansenoy , and Semangelof and placed around the neck of newborn boys in order to protect them from the lilin until their circumcision.

However, the idea that Lilith was the predecessor may be exclusive to the Alphabet. The idea in the text that Adam had a wife prior to Eve may have developed from an interpretation of the Book of Genesis and its dual creation accounts; while Genesis 2: Lilith claims that since she and Adam were created in the same way they were equal and she refuses to submit to him:.

After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, "It is not good for man to be alone. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, "I will not lie below," and he said, "I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air.

Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: Said the Holy One to Adam, "If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day. They told her God's word, but she did not wish to return. The angels said, "We shall drown you in the sea. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.

When the angels heard Lilith's words, they insisted she go back. But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: Accordingly, every day one hundred demons perish, and for the same reason, we write the angels' names on the amulets of young children. When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers. The background and purpose of The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is unclear.

It is a collection of stories about heroes of the Bible and Talmud , it may have been a collection of folk-tales , a refutation of Christian , Karaite , or other separatist movements; its content seems so offensive to contemporary Jews that it was even suggested that it could be an anti-Jewish satire , [53] although, in any case, the text was accepted by the Jewish mystics of medieval Germany. In turn, other scholars argue that the target of the Alphabet's satire is very difficult to establish exactly because of the variety of the figures and values ridiculed therein: Apparently, the first man is not the only male figure who is mocked: The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is the earliest surviving source of the story, and the conception that Lilith was Adam's first wife became only widely known with the 17th century Lexicon Talmudicum of German scholar Johannes Buxtorf.

In this folk tradition that arose in the early Middle Ages Lilith, a dominant female demon, became identified with Asmodeus , King of Demons, as his queen. Thus, the merging of Lilith and Asmodeus was inevitable. In this case Asmodeus and Lilith were believed to procreate demonic offspring endlessly and spread chaos at every turn. The presence of Lilith and her cohorts were considered very real at this time.

Two primary characteristics are seen in these legends about Lilith: Lilith as the incarnation of lust, causing men to be led astray, and Lilith as a child-killing witch, who strangles helpless neonates. These two aspects of the Lilith legend seemed to have evolved separately; there is hardly a tale where she encompasses both roles. Such stories are commonly found among Jewish folklore. Although the image of Lilith of the Alphabet of Ben Sira is unprecedented, some elements in her portrayal can be traced back to the talmudic and midrashic traditions that arose around Eve:.

Kabbalistic mysticism attempted to establish a more exact relationship between Lilith and the Deity. With her major characteristics having been well-developed by the end of the Talmudic period, after six centuries had elapsed between the Aramaic incantation texts that mention Lilith and the early Spanish Kabbalistic writings in the 13th century, she reappears, and her life history becomes known in greater mythological detail.

Her creation is described in many alternative versions. One mentions her creation as being before Adam's, on the fifth day, because the "living creatures" with whose swarms God filled the waters included none other than Lilith. A similar version, related to the earlier Talmudic passages, recounts how Lilith was fashioned with the same substance as Adam was, shortly before. A third alternative version states that God originally created Adam and Lilith in a manner that the female creature was contained in the male.

Lilith's soul was lodged in the depths of the Great Abyss. When God called her, she joined Adam. After Adam's body was created a thousand souls from the Left evil side attempted to attach themselves to him. However, God drove them off.

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Adam was left lying as a body without a soul. Then a cloud descended and God commanded the earth to produce a living soul. This God breathed into Adam, who began to spring to life and his female was attached to his side. God separated the female from Adam's side. The female side was Lilith, whereupon she flew to the Cities of the Sea and attacks humankind. Yet another version claims that Lilith emerged as a divine entity that was born spontaneously, either out of the Great Supernal Abyss or out of the power of an aspect of God the Gevurah of Din.

This aspect of God, one of his ten attributes Sefirot , at its lowest manifestation has an affinity with the realm of evil and it is out of this that Lilith merged with Samael. An alternative story links Lilith with the creation of luminaries. The "first light", which is the light of Mercy one of the Sefirot , appeared on the first day of creation when God said "Let there be light". This light became hidden and the Holiness became surrounded by a husk of evil. The first medieval source to depict Adam and Lilith in full was the Midrash A. Adam is said to be perfect until he recognizes either his sin or Cain's fratricide that is the cause of bringing death into the world.

He then separates from holy Eve, sleeps alone, and fasts for years. During this time Lilith, also known as Pizna , desired his beauty and came to him against his will. The mystical writing of two brothers Jacob and Isaac Hacohen, which predates the Zohar by a few decades, states that Samael and Lilith are in the shape of an androgynous being, double-faced, born out of the emanation of the Throne of Glory and corresponding in the spiritual realm to Adam and Eve, who were likewise born as a hermaphrodite.

The two twin androgynous couples resembled each other and both "were like the image of Above"; that is, that they are reproduced in a visible form of an androgynous deity. In answer to your question concerning Lilith, I shall explain to you the essence of the matter. Concerning this point there is a received tradition from the ancient Sages who made use of the Secret Knowledge of the Lesser Palaces, which is the manipulation of demons and a ladder by which one ascends to the prophetic levels. In this tradition it is made clear that Samael and Lilith were born as one, similar to the form of Adam and Eve who were also born as one, reflecting what is above.

This is the account of Lilith which was received by the Sages in the Secret Knowledge of the Palaces. Another version [ clarification needed ] that was also current among Kabbalistic circles in the Middle Ages establishes Lilith as the first of Samael's four wives: Lilith, Naamah , Eisheth , and Agrat bat Mahlat.

Each of them are mothers of demons and have their own hosts and unclean spirits in no number. Blind Dragon acts as an intermediary between Lilith and Samael:. Blind Dragon rides Lilith the Sinful — may she be extirpated quickly in our days, Amen!

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And just as the Dragon that is in the sea Isa. In many 17th century Kabbalistic books, this mythologem is based on the identification of " Leviathan the Slant Serpent and Leviathan the Torturous Serpent" and a reinterpretation of an old Talmudic myth where God castrated the male Leviathan and slew the female Leviathan in order to prevent them from mating and thereby destroying the earth. A 15th or 16th century Kabbalah text states that God has "cooled" the female Leviathan, meaning that he has made Lilith infertile and she is a mere fornication. The Treatise on the Left Emanation says that there are two Liliths, the lesser being married to the great demon Asmodeus.

In this tradition, it is made clear that Samael and Lilith were born as one, similar to the form of Adam and Eve who were also born as one, reflecting what is above. The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. Both of them were born at the same hour in the image of Adam and Eve, intertwined in each other. Asmodeus the great king of the demons has as a mate the Lesser younger Lilith, daughter of the king whose name is Qafsefoni.

The name of his mate is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, and their daughter is Lilith. Another passage charges Lilith as being a tempting serpent of Eve. And the Serpent, the Woman of Harlotry, incited and seduced Eve through the husks of Light which in itself is holiness. And the Serpent seduced Holy Eve, and enough said for him who understands.

And all this ruination came about because Adam the first man coupled with Eve while she was in her menstrual impurity — this is the filth and the impure seed of the Serpent who mounted Eve before Adam mounted her. Behold, here it is before you: For Evil Lilith, when she saw the greatness of his corruption, became strong in her husks, and came to Adam against his will, and became hot from him and bore him many demons and spirits and Lilin. This passage may be related to the mention of Lilith in Talmud Shabbath b see above , and also to Talmud Eruvin 18b where nocturnal emissions are connected with the begettal of demons.

Raphael Patai states that older sources state clearly that after Lilith's Red Sea sojourn mentioned also in Louis Ginzberg 's Legends of the Jews , she returned to Adam and begat children from him. In the Zohar, however, Lilith is said to have succeeded in begetting offspring from Adam during their short-lived sexual experience. Lilith leaves Adam in Eden, as she is not a suitable helpmate for him. She returns, later, to force herself upon him.

However, before doing so she attaches herself to Cain and bears him numerous spirits and demons. He was also aware of another story, possibly older, that may be conflicting. The issue of these unions were demons and spirits called "the plagues of humankind". A copy of Jean de Pauly 's translation of the Zohar in the Ritman Library contains an inserted late 17th Century printed Hebrew sheet for use in magical amulets where the prophet Elijah confronts Lilith. The sheet contains two texts within borders, which are amulets, one for a male 'lazakhar' , the other one for a female 'lanekevah'.

Sanoy, Sansinoy, Smangeluf, Shmari'el the guardian and Hasdi'el the merciful.