Lilith the Genesis of the Feminism Curse

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Verdana][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Verdana]Demons and devils are part of the folklore of almost every culture. Beliefs vary as to the nature of such evil spirits. Some dismiss the concept of mischievous poltergeist altogether. However, the definition of evil is constituted within your value system, the consequences of wicked actions abound. Most civilizations rely upon the heritage, legacies and teachings of previous generations. Much of the original dialogue on humanity, founded on the books of the bible, teach lessons of morality. So what can be said about the Lilith myth and how does her revulsion toward the natural order distort modern society?

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Lilith in the Bible and Mythology​

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Connections between Lilith, Adam’s first wife, and Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia


Megan Sauter June 04, 2021 56 Comments 216651 views Share

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C.S. Lewis’s character Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia, in his The Chronicles of Narnia novels is said to have descended from Lilith, Adam’s first wife. Pictured here is Tilda Swinton as Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia, in the film adaptation The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).

C.S. Lewis, one of the most beloved authors of the 20th century, created a magical, fictional world called Narnia. The primary villain of the first book of this series, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, is Jadis, the White Witch. Below is the character Edmund’s description of the White Witch when he first meets her:


A great lady, taller than any woman that Edmund had ever seen. She also was covered in white fur up to her throat and held a long straight golden wand in her right hand and wore a golden crown on her head. Her face was white—not merely pale, but white like snow or paper or icing-sugar, except for her very red mouth. It was a beautiful face in other respects, but proud and cold and stern.
(The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

Jadis, the White Witch, is beautiful—and terrifying. Although she looks like a human, she is not. According to the character Mr. Beaver, the White Witch was descended from Lilith, Adam’s first wife, on one side and from giants on the other.


Who is Lilith? Is there any warrant for calling Lilith Adam’s first wife, or is this just the baseless chatter of woodland creatures? Are there appearances of Lilith in the Bible?


Dan Ben-Amos, Professor of Folklore and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, explores the figure of Lilith in the Bible and mythology in his article “From Eden to Ednah—Lilith in the Garden” in the May/June 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. His analysis shows that Lilith is an intriguing figure who has taken on many shapes over the millennia. From this, we see that Jadis, the White Witch, shares more than just lineage with her supposed ancestor.



In the free eBook Exploring Genesis: The Bible’s Ancient Traditions in Context, discover the cultural contexts for many of Israel’s earliest traditions. Explore Mesopotamian creation myths, Joseph’s relationship with Egyptian temple practices and three different takes on the location of Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham.


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Who is Lilith: Beauty or horror? English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith (1866–68; altered 1872–73) depicts Lilith, Adam’s first wife, as a beautiful woman. Who is Lilith? According to Rossetti’s interpretation, she was a beauty. Photo: Delaware Art Museum

Lilith is first mentioned in ancient Babylonian texts as a class of winged female demons that attacks pregnant women and infants. From Babylonia, the legend of “the lilith” spread to ancient Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Egypt and Greece. In this guise—as a wilderness demoness—she appears in Isaiah 34:14 among a list of nocturnal creatures who will haunt the destroyed Kingdom of Edom. This is her only mention in the Bible, but her legend continued to grow in ancient Judaism.


During the Middle Ages, Jewish sources began to claim her as Adam’s first—and terrifying—wife. How did Lilith evolve from being a wilderness demoness to Adam’s first wife?


Interestingly enough, this story begins at the beginning—in Genesis 1.


The creation of humans is described in Genesis 1 and in Genesis 2. The first account is fairly straightforward: “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). The second account describes how God formed man out of the dust of the ground and then creates woman from the man: “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. … So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man” (Genesis 2:7, 21–22).


In the post-Biblical period, some ancient Jewish scholars took the stance that Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:21–22 must describe two separate events, since it appears that woman is created differently in these accounts. In her Bible Review article “Lilith” in the October 2001 issue, Professor Janet Howe Gaines explains this reasoning: “Considering every word of the Bible to be accurate and sacred, commentators needed a midrash or story to explain the disparity in the creation narratives of Genesis 1 and 2. God creates woman twice—once with man, once from man’s rib—so there must have been two women. The Bible names the second woman Eve; Lilith was identified as the first in order to complete the story.” Accordingly, Genesis 1:27 describes the creation of Adam and an unnamed woman (Lilith); Genesis 2:7 gives more details of Adam’s creation; and Genesis 2:21–22 describes the creation of Eve from Adam.


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Who is Lilith: Beauty or horror? This Aramaic incantation bowl depicts Lilith as a demoness. A text that mentions Lilith and other evil spirits is written on the inside of the bowl in spiral concentric circles. Incantation bowls were meant to both capture and repel evil spirits. Who is Lilith? According to this representation, which is more consistent with the appearance of “the lilith” in the Bible, she was a horror. Photo: Courtesy V. Klagsbald, Jerusalem

Lilith’s creation is recounted in The Tales of Ben Sira, an apocryphal work from the tenth century C.E. Dan Ben-Amos explains that although this is the first extant text that records the legend of Lilith, her story probably existed earlier:


[Lilith’s] story seems to hover at the edges of literacy with sporadic references. … n the post-Biblical period, the sages identify the lilith several times, not by name, but as “the First Eve,” indicating that her full story was well known in oral tradition, yet barred from the canonized Biblical text. Finally, in the tenth century C.E. in Babylon, an anonymous writer, who was not bound by normative traditional principles and who included in his book some other sexually explicit tales, spelled out the lilith’s adventures in paradise.


The Tales of Ben Sira relates that God created Lilith from the earth, just as he had created Adam. They immediately began fighting because neither would submit to the other. Recognizing that Adam would not listen to her, Lilith “pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air” (The Tales of Ben Sira). The angels Snvi, Snsvi and Smnglof were sent to pursue Lilith, but when they reached her, she refused to return with them to the Garden of Eden. “‘Leave me!’ she said. ‘I was created only to cause sickness to infants. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days’” (The Tales of Ben Sira). As a compromise, she promised that whenever she saw the angels’ names or forms on amulets, she would leave the child alone. She also agreed that 100 of her children—demons—would die every day.


Janet Howe Gaines expounds the severity of Lilith’s sin and its consequences as described in the The Tales of Ben Sira:


Lilith sins by impudently uttering the sacred syllables, thereby demonstrating to a medieval audience her unworthiness to reside in Paradise. So Lilith flies away, having gained power to do so by pronouncing God’s avowed name. Though made of the earth, she is not earthbound. Her dramatic departure reestablishes for a new generation Lilith’s supernatural character as a winged devil.

Gaines also explains Lilith’s hatred for human babies: “Ben Sira’s story suggests that Lilith is driven to kill babies in retaliation for Adam’s mistreatment and God’s insistence on slaying 100 of her progeny daily.”




To learn more about Biblical women with slighted traditions, take a look at the Bible History Daily feature Scandalous Women in the Bible, which includes articles on Lilith, Mary Magdalene and Jezebel.




The Lilith legend continued to grow and change over the following centuries, which is reflected in various artistic depictions of her. While some portrayed Lilith as a beautiful woman, others showed her in a more sinister light. Some even depicted her as the serpent in the Garden of Eden who convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.


Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia, shares similarities with Lilith. Not only are both of them strong, terrifying women, but they also seem bent on destroying human life. Both wield dark magic and are immortal beings. As revealed in C.W. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew, Jadis gains immortality by eating a silver apple inside a walled garden in Narnia. This episode has some obvious connections to the account of the Garden of Eden in the Bible. Additionally, both pronounce an ineffable word and suffer dire consequences as a result. The Magician’s Nephew tells how Jadis—before she became the White Witch—pronounced the Deplorable Word, which killed every living thing in her world, Charn, except for herself. So great was her desire for power and her refusal to submit, she spoke the Deplorable Word—knowing full well that it would kill every living person and thing in her world—rather than surrender her claim to the throne of Charn. These examples demonstrate that the character Jadis bears both the blood and the character of her foremother Lilith.


From demoness to Adam’s first wife, Lilith is a terrifying force. To learn more about Lilith in the Bible and mythology, read Dan Ben-Amos’s full article—“From Eden to Ednah—Lilith in the Garden”—in the May/June 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.
 
Lilith and Lucifer are the same entity, that is why the push for transgenderism, look at Baal he has breast, one of the sculptures on the Notre-Dame de Paris is the tree of knowledge which shows the serpent with breast. Genesis 1:27 is the creation of humans meaning negros and asians and if you look at it from an anthropology view point the other two races were here years before the White man. Read Genesis 2:5 were it says he could not find a man to till the garden, were not negros and asians hunter gathers; now in Genesis 2:7 he created Adam and breathed in him the breath of life, a living soul, humans don't have that also The word adam means ruddy because the Hebrew word dam (Strong's #1818) means blood. אָדַםʼâdam, aw-dam'; to show blood in the face, do the other races blush, no. In Genesis 2:2,22 God creates Eve, it says he took a rib, but it was DNA. Kind after Kind, God commands us to keep sperate from the other races.
 
Wildcats shall meet with desert beasts,

Satyrs shall call to one another;

there shall Lilith repose,

and find for herself a place to rest.

There the screech owl shall nest and lay eggs,

hatch them out and gather them in her shadow;

there shall the kites assemble,

each with its mate.
(Isaiah 34: 14-15)

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Lilith is a very cryptic figure, indeed! So, just who is she?

Perhaps the earliest appearance of Lilith is in Tablet XII of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem, dating from c. 2100 B.C. The poem proper includes Tablets I-XI, with Tablet XII added as a sort of “prequel” to the epic around 600 B.C. In Tablet XII, Gilgamesh’s side-kick Enkidu, drops through a hole in the ground and explores the underworld (much as Odysseus does in Book XI of the Odyssey). There in the underworld, Enkidu finds a huluppu tree growing in the garden of Inanna, a Mesopotamian goddess. At the base of the tree coils a deadly serpent and in the tree’s leaves a Zu-bird raises it’s young, while an evil spirit lurks darkly, mysteriously, in its trunk. When Gilgamesh comes to Enkidu’s rescue, he kills the serpent, the Zu-bird darts away and the evil spirit in a fury destroys the tree and vanishes into the forest.

The evil spirit is Lilith.

There is only the faintest connection (if any) between the Epic of Gilgamesh and ancient Hebrew literature, although as we noted, Lilith does appear as a demonic figure in some manuscripts of Isaiah 34. Somewhat later, in the 1st-century B.C., one set of Dead Sea Scroll fragments found in Cave 4 at Qumran (4Q510a-511b) titled, “The Songs of the Sage for Protection against Evil Spirits,” mentions Lilith. Here’s what it says: “And I, the Instructor, proclaim [God’s] glorious splendor so as to frighten and to te[rrify] all the spirits of the destroying angels, spirits of the bastards, demons, Lilith, howlers . . . and those which fall upon men without warning to lead them astray from a spirit of understanding.”

Later Rabbinic literature such as the Alphabet of ben Sira (c. 800-1000 A.D.) develops a far darker portrayal of Lilith as Adam’s first wife, suggested by the dual creation stories in Genesis 1 & 2. According to this story, Lilith was formed from the very same clay as Adam, her equal; thus, she refused to be sexually submissive to him, demanding to be “on top.” After a fierce argument, Lilith flies away, spawns one hundred little demons and vows to kill the children of Adam and his second wife, Eve. In later times, on dark, stormy nights, mothers were known to lull their anxious children to sleep, easing their minds about a monster lurking beneath the bed by softly singing “lullabies,” a word perhaps derived from the Hebrew lilith-abi, “Lilith begone!” In Jewish tradition, mothers often tie a red string or ribbon (a nachora bendel) around their baby’s wrist to ward off Lilith, who might creep into the nursery to snatch their infant.

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