WHO IS LILITH?a?

Question

Is she the snake who gave Eve and Adam the apple?

Answer 1

Lilith
In the Babylonian tradition, there is a triad of demons with whom Lilith is associated. The male is called Lilu, and the two females are Lilitu, a frigid, barren, & husbandless demon who roamed the night searching for men to seduce or drink their blood, and Ardat Lili, the 'maid of desolation.'

Lilith is thought be the demon of waste places who originally lived in the garden of the Sumerian goddess, Innana, queen of heaven. She is mentioned only briefly in the Hebrew Bible in Isaiah 34:14.

In Jewish traditions, Lilith was created with Adam from the dust of the earth, & became his first wife. She was stubborn, though, & refused to be subservient to her husband. Instead of becoming Adam's servant, she left him & was turned out of Paradise. However, before God created Eve, He sent 3 angels to try to convince Lilith to return to Adam. She refused, & God cursed her by sentencing 100 of her offspring to die each day. After her expulsion from Paradise, however, she slept once more with Adam, & bore the Shedim, Lilin, & Rauchin.

Later, in Kabbalistic circles, Lilith became the mistress of Sammael.

It is mistakenly thought that Lilith's name was derived from the Hebrew word lailah, which means 'night.' This was probably derived from the similarity of the two words, and the idea that Lilith was mostly active at night.

Answer 2

Who is Lilith? According to certain apocryphal literature (books omitted from the Old Testament) Lilith was Adam's first wife. It seems that Adam and Lilith quarreled all the time.

One fine day Lilith pronounced the ineffable name of God, sprouted wings and flew off to a distant mountain peak where she proceeded to couple with demons giving birth at the accelerated rate of more than a hundred live-births a day to all evil creatures known and unknown to man. As Adam is the father of mankind, Lilith is the mother of all things evil. So say the legends.

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Answer 3

The snake was Satan. Lilith was Adam's first wife

Answer 4

Lilith is the mythological first wife of Adam. She, like Adam, was created by God "from the dust of the earth. . . in the image of God He created them, male and female He created them" (Gen. 1:27) being the first reference to human life in the Bible. It would seem that Eve came later,fashioned from a rib taken from Adam while he slept : ". . . this is to be called woman, for this was taken from Man". (Gen. 2:24) This strange anomaly can only be explained by assuming that there was a female human before Eve. Since only Eve is subsequently present in the Garden of Eden, her predecessor must have departed before Eve's arrival on the scene. One can only assume that Lilith's near total absence (aside from oblique references to "screech owls") from the Judeo/Christian Bible is a matter of prejudice on the part of the male patriarchal authors.

Semitic legend describes Lilith as having a "base" nature and a taste for biting Adam and drinking his blood. She had refused to submit to Adam's
authority and in a fit of pique, she uttered the ineffable name of God and flew up into the air, only to only to be cast down by God into the desert wastes where she took up residence. (The only mention of Lilith in the standard Christian Bible is in Isaiah, where a passing reference is made about her living in the desert.) Lilith is described as either a winged serpent or a screech owl, who murders infants (it would appear from the perspective of modern medicine that infants who succumbed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome would have been thought to have been victims of Lilith), and who torments men at night who sleep alone

Answer 5

Adam's first wife.