The story of Lilith
Reference to Lilith can be found in Egyptian, Sumerian, Arabic, Persian, and Babylonian myth and folklore.
Lilith’s tale goes far back into time. Most people already know the tale of Adam and Eve. It’s a Hebrew myth that Lilith was the first wife of Adam. Yahweh, or God, created Adam and Lilith. Some say they were created as twins joined together from the back. Other stories claim Adam was made from pure dust from Earth and Lilith from other sediment from Earth. In Hebrew lore, Lilith was created from Earth, in Sumerian tales, from Air. In both versions, Adam tries to lay with Lilith. She demands to be treated equally and desires not to be dominated. Lilith says the creators name aloud and feels powerful. She then decides to run away to live forever by the Red Sea. Some stories claim the power she felt was so great it enabled her to fly away.
Lilith is said to have became a female demon of the night. She was a woman of seduction and equality. Lilith was a spirit of darkness and night. Both and angel and demon of conception. She was blamed and accused for miscarriage, stillbirth, crib death, infertility. She had the power over fertility and childbirth. She had the power over sexual desire, erotic dreams and sacred sex magic. She punishes the prudish and despises sanctimonious people. She is a protective guardian over those she perceives as her children, more importantly, her daughters.
Lilith living exiled by the Red Sea, became a lover to demons and re-produced with them. Yahweh sends three angels to bring Lilith back. “Said the Holy One, ‘If she agrees to come back, it is good. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die everyday.’ They told her God’s word, but she did not wish to return.” - Alphabet of Ben Sira
Following this, Yahweh then created Eve from one of Adam’s ribs, unlike the ground as Lilith and Adam were.
Lilith was demonized as a symbol of disobedience and promiscuity. She can also be viewed and a woman who demanded equality, the original independent female spirit.
~Marie