About NERA, a reading in four parts
@mordenheim LISTENED to, LIKED and
REBLOGGED all four parts of
@nevermord who commented :
Yup. I have mentioned before the origin of this tale. It is rooted in ancient Hebrew manuscripts and beliefs about 3000 years old. Genesis back then was quite a different tale than the version that is in the Old Testament now.
Lilith was the first of Adam’s seven wives. She ate of both the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. She fled into, and I quote from the translation that I read, “into the darkness where The Source of Light could not go.”
Adam’s other five wives all made the Eve mistake but failed to convince him to share in the Fruit of Knowledege. They were banished from Eden and became the mothers of the “children of the earth” whom Cain later married.
Calling God the Source of Light was a common euphemism in that translation.
The ancient belief was that Lilith gained God like powers and created in the Darkness where God, the Source of Light, could not go, completing Creation.
I did not make up Lilith, The Source of Light or the Angel with the flaming sword that guarded Eden. I did make up Nera and Rostov.
Later peoples, both Christian and pre Christian distorted the whole Genesis tale into what we now have. They also demoted Lilith to a mere evil spirit who caused still birth and strangled infants in their cribs.
On a side note, I just listened to the original MP3 recordings of NERA and the nasty buzzing and odd Loud bongs that seem to be a feature of the Tumblr copies are NOT present. My now deceased pet birds, chirping at times Are present
