[b] In Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, a huluppu tree grows in Inanna's garden in Uruk, whose wood she plans to use to build a new throne. She is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 100b, Niddah 24b, Shabbat 151b, Baba Bathra 73a), in the Book of Adam and Eve as Adam's first wife, and in the Zohar Leviticus 19a as "a hot fiery female who first cohabited with man". How overjoyed I am to think, sir, This is why one hundred of Lilith's demon children die every day and why the names of the three angels, Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, written on an amulet, protect people from her evil influence. Their names are Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof. Tapping the child on the nose, it was believed, made her go away. This God breathed into Adam, who began to spring to life and his female was attached to his side. Wycliffe's Bible (1395) preserves the Latin rendering lamia: Isa 34:15 Lamya schal ligge there, and foond rest there to hir silf. In contrast, some scholars, such as Lowell K. Handy, hold the view that though Lilith derives from Mesopotamian demonology, evidence of the Hebrew Lilith being present in the sources frequently cited - the Sumerian Gilgamesh fragment and the Sumerian incantation from Arshlan-Tash being two - is scant, if present at all. No Children Allowed: Introducing Lilith, the Jewish Vampire Queen. Lilith? Deciphering Jewish Manuscripts . These amulets are mentioned in the Ben Sirah, and in fact, the story probably exists to give a more religious justification for the otherwise pretty superstition-and-magic . However, nowhere do the rabbis specify what happened to the first woman, leaving the matter open for further speculation. The second mention of Lilith, this time explicit, is present in Numbers Rabbah 16:25. [70] The marriage of archangel Samael and Lilith was arranged by Tanin'iver ("Blind Dragon"), who is the counterpart of "the dragon that is in the sea". [102], The western mystery tradition associates Lilith with the Qliphoth of kabbalah. The first occurrence of plague in the recorded history of the Middle East was known as the Plague of Justinian, named after the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. he said, "the woman you gave me has run away." The word lilit (or lilith) only appears once in the Hebrew Bible, in a prophecy regarding the fate of Edom,[3] while the other seven terms in the list appear more than once and thus are better documented. Schrader's and Levy's view is therefore partly dependent on a later dating of Deutero-Isaiah to the 6th century BC, and the presence of Jews in Babylon which would coincide with the possible references to the Lltu in Babylonian demonology. When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers. [85] Her gift was the "mark of a Sibyl", a gift of second sight. It made its way to the Land of Israel from Egypt around 541-542 AD. 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. A birth amulet featuring an illustration of Adam and Eve. In 1863, Dante Gabriel Rossetti of the Brotherhood began painting what would later be his first rendition of Lady Lilith, a painting he expected to be his "best picture hitherto". the first Adam). Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof are featured in this amulet (from the Bill Gross Collection) that safeguards a newborn child and its mother with an incantation against Lilith. In rabbinic literature, incorporating over 1,000 years of writing and interpretation, we find the names of several satanic figures that developed over time, each of them constantly trying to establish evils grip on the world. Moss. Is This What the First Temple Looked Like? [72] With Lilith being unable to fornicate with Samael anymore, she sought to couple with men who experience nocturnal emissions. She tells Elijah that she will lose her power if someone uses her secret names, which she reveals at the end: lilith, abitu, abizu, hakash, avers hikpodu, ayalu, matrota [78], In other amulets, probably informed by The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, she is Adam's first wife. Joseph M. Baumgarten (1991) identified the unnamed woman of The Seductress (4Q184) as related to the female demon. Found in the wild waters The message was delivered She declined their offer Thus refused to return. Till heart and body and life are in its hold. The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. Below it, were the names of the primogenitors: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. According to Biblical mythology, Lilith was Adam's first companion and she abandoned him. 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.[49]. While God created Adam, who was alone, He said, "It is not good for man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). Australian poet and scholar Christopher John Brennan (18701932), included a section titled "Lilith" in his major work "Poems: 1913" (Sydney: G. B. Philip and Son, 1914). Judging by the style of script, as well as the name of the youth to whom the manuscript was dedicated Yosef Tzemach Gabriel Donati which appears on the last page, it is likely that the manuscript was inscribed in Italy during the 18th or 19th century. References to Lilith in the Zohar include the following: She roams at night, and goes all about the world and makes sport with men and causes them to emit seed. Hormin who is mentioned here as the son of Lilith is most probably a result of a scribal error of the word "Hormiz" attested in some of the Talmudic manuscripts. [89] Symbols appearing in the painting allude to the "femme fatale" reputation of the Romantic Lilith: poppies (death and cold) and white roses (sterile passion). There is also a threatening vocal motif involved, emanating from the onomatopoeic sound of the names said together, which resembles sounds found in nature, like the hiss of a snake or the crackle of fire. [75] Gershom Scholem proposes that the author of the Zohar, Rabbi Moses de Leon, was aware of both the folk tradition of Lilith and another conflicting version, possibly older. 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. She has different conflicting origins and is described as having a human upper body from the waist up and a serpentine body from the waist down. During this time "Pizna", either an alternate name for Lilith or a daughter of hers, desires his beauty and seduces him against his will. The letters appearing in the upper amulet , likely transliterated as Anaktam Pastam Paspasim Dionsim form one of the secret divine names, according to certain Jewish mystical traditions. The Bishops' Bible of Matthew Parker (1568) from the Latin: Isa 34:14 there shall the Lamia lye and haue her lodgyng. The Angel Senoy,not much is Known of this mysterious being.Thought to have been trapped in a statue after YHVH sent Senoy,and his two brothers, Sansenoy and Semangelof to bring back Lilith to Adam. [77], The sheet contains two texts within borders, which are amulets, one for a male ('lazakhar'), the other one for a female ('lanekevah'). 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 Lilith. [67], The first medieval source to depict Adam and Lilith in full was the Midrash A.B.K.I.R. And the Serpent seduced Holy Eve, and enough said for him who understands. Lilith in Historical Text First published in 1883, the poem uses the traditional myths surrounding the triad of Adam, Eve, and Lilith. And she also afflicts him with sickness, and he knows it not, and all this takes place when the moon is on the wane.[74]. The Jerusalem Talmud is incomplete here, but the Babylonian Talmud on Tractate Niddah (2a76b) is complete. He hath slain them' (Num. [101] A different approach to a Satanic Lilith holds that she was once a fertility and agricultural goddess. The sound warns Lilith and gives her pause, making clear that she should not approach the mother and her newborn children. When the angels heard Lilith's words, they insisted she go back. None of those who enter there will ever return, A third alternative version states that God originally created Adam and Lilith in a manner that the female creature was contained in the male. The last manuscript which we will present also hails from 19th century Italy. After Adam's body was created a thousand souls from the Left (evil) side attempted to attach themselves to him. The three angels were made popular by the Alphabet of ben Sirah, while the illustrations of their images in various amulets also contributed to their fame. At this point, the three angels enter the picture. Stories about Qarinah and Lilith merged in early Islam.[88]. However, they are defeated by Methuselah, who slays thousands of them with a holy sword and forces Agrimas to give him the names of the rest, after which he casts them away to the sea and the mountains.[68]. [51], 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 (4th6th century AD) with influence from Iranian culture. The figure is often depicted with arms and legs chained, indicating the control of the family over the demon(ess). (c. 10th century), which was followed by the Zohar and other Kabbalistic writings. God sent three angelsSenoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelofto find Lilith and bring her back. In the Dead Sea Scrolls 4Q510-511, the term first occurs in a list of monsters. Apples grow, too, in my garden. First among these Talmudic demons is Samael, often referred to euphemistically as Sitra Achra The Other Side. Senoy, Sansenoy & Semangelof symbols. Another interesting text can be found in a manuscript which is part of the Bill Gross Collection and which received the rather generic title, Prayers Against the Plague. 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". God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. Ever since the days of Eden These amulets are mentioned in the Ben Sirah, and in fact, the story probably exists to give a more religious justification for the otherwise pretty superstition-and-magic . [80][81], Not so much an amulet as a ritual object for protection, the Krasmesser (or Kreismesser, circle knife) played a role in Jewish birth rituals in the area of Alsace, Switzerland and Southern Germany between the 16th and 20th century. [47][52] These bowls were buried upside down below the structure of the house or on the land of the house, in order to trap the demon or demoness. He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her . [89] A few magical orders dedicated to the undercurrent of Lilith, featuring initiations specifically related to the arcana of the "first mother", exist. The Krasmesser would be used by a midwife or by the husband to draw a magic circle around the pregnant or birthing woman to protect her from Lilith and the evil eye, which were considered to represent the greatest danger for children and pregnant women. 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. Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: "Sovereign of the universe!" Occasionally, a piece of paper with magic spells writ-ten on it was hung by the child's bed. With denial of inferiority She rose into the air Spoke the magic word And fled to the Red Sea. The same goes for the story of Lilith as the first woman, and her escape from Adam. . she said. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in paper print. Tractate Niddah in the Mishnah is the only tractate from the Order of Tohorot which has Talmud on it. She is considered a goddess of independence by those Satanists and is often worshipped by women, but women are not the only people who worship her. [16], The Sumerian female demons lili have no etymological relation to Akkadian lilu, "evening". In 1881, the Lilith sonnet was renamed "Body's Beauty" in order to contrast it and Soul's Beauty. [96] In some contemporary concepts, Lilith is viewed as the embodiment of the Goddess, a designation that is thought to be shared with what these faiths believe to be her counterparts: Inanna, Ishtar, Asherah, Anath, Anahita and Isis. Alternatively he can take water of which a dog has drunk at night, but he must take care that it has not been exposed." He also created a woman from the earth, as He had created Adam [94][95], Gerald Gardner asserted that there was continuous historical worship of Lilith to present day, and that her name is sometimes given to the goddess being personified in the coven by the priestess. [76], The Zohar adds further that two female spirits instead of one, Lilith and Naamah, desired Adam and seduced him. In the Zohar, however, Lilith is said to have succeeded in begetting offspring from Adam even during their short-lived sexual experience. The word itself in turn seems to be a distortion of, "R. Hanina said: One may not sleep in a house alone [in a lonely house], and whoever sleeps in a house alone is seized by Lilith." The character Mr. Beaver ascribes the ancestry of the main antagonist, Jadis the White Witch, to Lilith. According to the legend, if she can't destroy or claim the human infant, because of the angelic amulet, she may spitefully turn against her own children, the Lilim, in a fit of rage. The Myth's Origins In the book of Genesis 1:27 it says, "Male and female, He created them." This is the account of Lilith which was received by the Sages in the Secret Knowledge of the Palaces.[67]. Lilith had the power to transform into a woman's physical features, seduce her husband, and conceive a child. Four guests protect Smamit from the demon; the names of three of them are Soney, Sosoney and Senigly. In the writings of the sages of the holy city of Safed (Zfat), in the northern Land of Israel, we find evidence that these rabbis sought to fight off the plague with the help of special amulets, among other things. In many 17th century Kabbalistic books, this seems to be 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 with their offspring. A blank space is left for the name of the mother. [44] The text is thus, to a community "deeply involved in the realm of demonology",[45] an exorcism hymn. This edition was published in 1855 in the city of Lemberg, todays Lviv, in western Ukraine. If a child laughed while sleeping, it was taken as a sign that Lilith was present. And just as the Dragon that is in the sea (Isa. Enter your e-mail below to receive the most interesting, quality content about the treasures preserved in the National Library! They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore lilim at the rate of more than one hundred a day. Lilith appears as a succubus in Aleister Crowley's De Arte Magica. 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. God sent three angels, named Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, who found her in the Red Sea. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in print. I thought, 'If, despite this lie, he strips however, sent after her three angels-Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof by name,11 who soon located her in the same wild waters in which the Egyptians were to drown in the days of the Exodus. Amsterdam, circa 1700. Sansenoy, and Semange- lof on amulets hung around the necks of new-born babes: when Lilith sees the names, she remembers her oath and leaves the child . Samael Aun Weor in The Pistis Sophia Unveiled writes that homosexuals are the "henchmen of Lilith". These two aspects of the Lilith legend seemed to have evolved separately; there is hardly a tale where she encompasses both roles. [84] One source states simply that she is a daughter of the goddess Hecate, another, that Lamia was subsequently cursed by the goddess Hera to have stillborn children because of her association with Zeus; alternatively, Hera slew all of Lamia's children (except Scylla) in anger that Lamia slept with her husband, Zeus. (CD-ROM). The lamiae, the strigae, the sorcerers whom they accused of sucking the blood of living people, and of thus causing their death, the magicians who were said to cause the death of new-born children by charms and malignant spells, are nothing less than what we understand by the name of vampires; even were it to be owned that these lamiae and strigae have really existed, which we do not believe can ever be well proved. [65] Her creation is described in many alternative versions. And the Serpent, the Woman of Harlotry, incited and seduced Eve through the husks of Light which in itself is holiness. [55] The writing is most commonly scripture or references to the Talmud. To avert danger, it was held wise to strike the sleeping child's lips with one finger-whereupon Lilith would vanish. [103] Dion Fortune writes, "The Virgin Mary is reflected in Lilith",[104] and that Lilith is the source of "lustful dreams". ), Ebeling, Erich; Meissner, Bruno; Edzard, Dietz Otto. 151b; b. Baba Bathra 73ab, Kabbalist References: Zohar 3:76b77a; Zohar Sitrei Torah 1:147b148b; Zohar 2:267b; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 19c; Zohar 3:19a; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 102d103a; Zohar 1:54b55a, Dead Sea Scroll References: 4QSongs of the Sage/4QShir; 4Q510 frag.11.46a//frag.10.1f; 11QPsAp, Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants, "Finding Lilith: The Most Powerful Hag In History", Collection of Lilith information and links, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lilith&oldid=1139992560, (the) night-demon Lilith, evil and rapacious (, "[Expounding upon the curses of womanhood] In a, "For gira he should take an arrow of Lilith and place it point upwards and pour water on it and drink it. According to Augustine Calmet, Lilith has connections with early views on vampires and sorcery: Some learned men have thought they discovered some vestiges of vampirism in the remotest antiquity; but all that they say of it does not come near what is related of the vampires. The plague of archaeology, a pashkevil from 1980, Another pashkevil, seen here below, which dates to the period of the British Mandate, warns of the plague of eating and selling non-kosher meat, which had broken out among the Jewish community. Others base their reverence for her on her history as a succubus and praise her as a sex goddess. The angels very names Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof are seen as safeguards against Liliths actions. Amen, Amen, Selah, Halleluyah! Spelled as "Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof". Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair. And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare? In later periods paint-ed amulets were prepared, and these in time were replaced by prints. 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. The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are in fact, . (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin 69b). The female side was Lilith, whereupon she flew to the Cities of the Sea and attacked humankind. [64], 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. Likewise, women who undergo wilful abortion, and those who support this practice are "seen in the sphere of Lilith". [60] The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are, in fact, dated as being much older. 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