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Lilith
Lilith is the Goddess of:
Love
Demons
Beauty
Wisdom
Life
Rebirth
Fertility
Motherhood
Inner strength
Illumination
Mysteries
Spiritual initiation
The night
The evening star
Vampires
Lilith is said to to be Adams first wife before Eve and was exiled due to her independence and her ways of thinking.
Modern day has taught most to fear her, but her intents are pure. She tells us to take back our power. She calls to us to stand in our truth, embracing our dark and light equally.
She tells us to stop playing small and being afraid of burning too passionately for worry of being misunderstood in the eyes of others. Our fire is not for them she tells us, it is for us!
Lilith represents the dark sexual raw parts of us that are instinctual and ugly. Things we don’t like to acknowledge, but they are as much apart of our being as anything else.
She is a rebel, an exile, a survivor, and she’s not afraid to get what she wants. Despite the negativity that surrounds her in astrology, she’s within each and every one of us and she’s not a source of evil but of power. Embrace your Lilith and you embrace yourself.
Some symbols that represent her are:
Owls
Serpents
Dark Moon
Lilith’s glyph
Crossroads
Some offerings for this deity are:
Incense- sandalwood, rose, mugwort, myrrh, or dragon’s blood
Red, black or purple candles
Images of owls, snakes, bats, cats, and spiders
Crystals- black obsidian, carnelian, red Jasper and garnet
Fruit- apples, grapes, berries and fig
Wine, root beer, rum, liquor and tea
Moon water or storm water
Prayer to Lilith
“Lilith, I invoke you, I adore you, I desire you, Lilith, goddess of darkness, illuminate my temple in black light, Lilith, kindle me in excitement of the flesh under the domain of the mind, Lilith, great mother, sister, lover, give me the cup of knowledge, Lilith, I am drunk from your breasts, I take hold of your majesty, Lilith, timeless abyss, you destroy my fears revealing the secret knowledge, Lilith, unleash your legions against my enemies, Lilith, consume me in your embrace, in the swirly starring horizon.”
Genuine question, but I often see DNIs saying "no non-Jewish Lilith devotees". I understand that Judaism is generally recognized as closed, but what about those who worship Lilith via Mesopotamian paganism? That is not a closed practice, and Lilith is featured there. Thanks to all who read, and double thanks to all who answer in good faith :)
Disclaimer: my personal practice has nothing to do with Lilith, Judaism, or Mesopotamian paganism, and I honestly don't know as much as I would like about them. I'm not looking to start any drama, please, I simply wish to educate myself further!
Simply put,
"Lilith" is not featured in Mesopotamian mythology. The concept of Lilith, as an individual, is from Jewish folklore.
Lilith is the personification/explanation for miscarriages, dangerous labor, and SIDS from Jewish folklore.
The origin of the story of Lilith as first wife of Adam and mother of demons is from Alphabet of Ben Sira. A Jewish satirical work and a story clearly written by a man who hates women.
The story of Lilith became popular to reexamine and retell with the feminist movements. However, the story itself from Ben Sira was what was reexamined and retold more sympathetically. This is something not uncommon in Jewish writings and storytelling.
However, the gentiles who saw the new retellings and reimaginings lacked both the history and context to understand what was going on, and we wind up with gentiles worshipping a literature character at best, or a murderer of women and babies at worst. Not a pretty thing.
Seconding all of this. As a Sumerian pagan, I think the best practice ANY neopagan can engage in is respecting your neighbors. I'm trying to breathe life into a dead religion with duct tape and Wikipedia articles. Jewish people are still going strong after all these years. I do not actually have "tradition" to draw on- they do. And if a well established old religion says this thing is disrespectful to them personally, it costs me nothing to just... not add it to my homemade practice.
And, as was said, worship of Lilith is ahistorical. From what information I have and inferences I can make off of that, Lilith is connected to a type of Mesopotamian demon called lilitu or ardat lili, and they were essentially child stealing/baby eating demons. You do not praise things that kill kids. In some circumstances you might bribe or ward them off, but you do NOT praise them.
If you're looking for some kind of Mesopotamian goddess to help you handle an abortion, my recommendations are either Inanna or Gula. Maybe Uttu (two t's, not one).
you people just cannot shut the fuck up can you.
Lilith grant you the mercy and understanding that you refuse to grant Her. Lilith is worshipped, actively, openly, visibly, in society, in REALITY, BY REAL PEOPLE. BY US. if it makes you happier to discriminate and commit bigotry against a micro minority religion, by all means. We Will Continue Our Worship Regardless ❤️🔥 VIVA LA GLORIA ALLA LILIA
Lilith as the sacred fire
Please enjoy my digital grimoire snippet about Winter Solstice!
My new Hekate icon slaps. That is all.
Isn't it actually so beautiful that deities take the time to try and guide and teach us? How wonderful is it that they care for us so deeply that they'd share their wisdom, knowledge, and insight so freely? I think a deity's love is something to be cherished, and I cherish this. 🧡✨
December Correspondences 🧙♀️🌑❄️
We've all needed this from time to time 💔
Random Greek Deity Facts
- Artemis has been associated with horses in the past.
- Ares has associations with owls.
- There are ancient gravestones with reliefs on them that historians still cannot tell if the art is of Dionysus or Jesus.
- It is common for historians to struggle identifying if a statue is of Artemis or Apollo because they often look so much alike.
- Hephaestus is a god of fire.
- Maia, the Mother of Hermes, was thought to assist in raising both Dionysus and Hephaestus.
- Hypnos is said to live in a massive cave, sleeping with thousands of his sons.
- Rather than blood, Greek gods are said to have something called Ichor running through their veins; no one is quite sure what "Ichor" actually is.
- Both Apollo and Artemis are deities of light; it is not just Apollo. Along with this, it is believed Leto may also be a goddess of light.
- It is commonly believed that the hyacinth flower is not actually the flower Hyacinthus was infamously transformed into; most sources seem to agree that it was likely either an iris or a larkspur.
- At one point in the Dionysiaca, Dionysus wages a war against India. The goddess Rhea is said to have gathered troops for him, and Zeus was said to have been the one to task Dionysus with going to war in order to allow him to join the gods on Mount Olympus.
- Demeter's chariot is pulled by two giant winged serpents; she has literal dragons pulling her around, and no one is talking about it.
- The Python was a child of Gaia, and before Apollo took up the Oracle in Delphi, there was actually an Oracle with Gaia in that location.
- The twins Castor and Pollux, who made up the Gemini constellation, were commonly worshipped throughout ancient Greece under the title of the "Dioscuri" or "Dioskouroi".
- Also regarding the Dioskouroi, the name "Castor" ("Kastor") may translate to "Beaver".
- The famous epithet "Paean" of Apollo was also listed on an ancient Mycenaean tablet that listed the names of separate deities. It is, therefore, possible that Paean was once a separate god who later became associated/merged with both Apollo and his son Ascelpius.
- Besides being an epithet, a Paean was also a type of devotional chant/song that was sung in honor of Apollo. Some ancient sources claim that the event of singing a Paean could actually be quite loud, involving clouds of stomping/banging and movement.
- The masculine version of Hekate's name, "Hekatos", was an epithet for the god Apollo; both names can be translated to "worker from afar".
- The first record of the more "traditional" view of a werewolf comes from the Greek myth about King Lycaon, when Zeus transformed into a wolf for ten years as punishment for tricking the gods into consuming human flesh (yes, you read that right).
- In the myths, Zeus and Hermes have a lovely Father-Son bonding trip of destroying an entire village (except for one home) for not showing either of the disguised gods hospitality as poor travellers.
- Both Apollo and Zeus were seen as gods who purified "blood-guilt" - a condition which was caused by the killing of another person and required immense purification.
- Cerberus is described as a fully sentient being who can communicate as other immensely powerful children of Gaia could, meaning he is akin to the gods in terms of intelligence rather than being like an overgrown dog.
- Hermes is said to be the inventor of offerings, specifically animal sacrifices.
- One origin of the Pegasus was Poseidon and Medusa doing the devil's tango.
- There is a tale that claims Hermes to be the one who granted Aesop his knowledge of fables.
- According to some ancient sources, Cerberus has as many as fifty heads, a mane of snakes, the claws of a lion, and a snake tail.
- Iris was not only the goddess of rainbows but was also the personal messenger of Hera and was prominently featured in The Iliad delivering many messages on behalf of the Olympian gods.
- Eros has been depicted as the child of Aphrodite and Ares, the child of Ouranos and Aphrodite, the child of solely Aphrodite, the child of Poros and Penia, the child of Ouranos and Gaia, the child of Zephyrus and Iris, and a primordial being who simply came into being. So, where did Eros actually come from? Your guess is as good as any.
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That's all for now! Let me know if y'all enjoyed these and would like more. 🧡
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|| Sources ||
- Theoi.com (of course)
- The Iliad by Homer
- Theogony by Hesiod
- The Dionysiaca by Nonnus
- Information from various museum trips in Athens and Delphi, Greece (sorry, I don't remember the exact sources 💀)
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Demonic goddess of transformation, dark wisdom, mysteries, transformational love, challenges, magick, death and rebirth, spiritual initiation, and the night.
Lilith is the Queen of Night; the Dark Mother who whispers from the shadows and guides us through the Path of Thorns. Those who wish to follow her walk this very path, seeking to become as the perfect crimson rose, blooming in the eternal Night.
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