Lilith

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Lilith

In the apocryphal books of the Bible, usually those not thought to be scripture, because the author is anonymous and the material or content therein is under research still or in dispute, there is content that suggests Adam had two wives. When God created Adam from the dust, Adam walked the Earth, in Eden alone. Then God looked upon Adam and said to himself, that a man should not be made to be alone. So God took from the Earth, dust again, and created Lilith. If one remembers correctly God took a rib from Adam to create Eve, instead of again making a human from the dust. The reason some suspect is because of what happened with Lilith. As soon as Lilith was with Adam, the two began fighting. Adam insisted that it was he who should lay above Lilith, and she who should lay below, because he was superior to her. Lilith said in reply that she would not lay below him, and that she was equal to him in that she was made from the same earth as he.

Instead of staying and being forever the inferior to Adam, Lilith fled the Garden of Eden, and ran far away. God sent three angels after her, and told them if they could convince her to come back, then all would be well, but if not, to warn her that for her disobedience, one hundred of her children would die every day. The angels flew, and found Lilith near the shore of the sea, and explained all that God had said. Lilith refused, and the angels threatened to drown her in the sea. They argued for a while, and eventually, Lilith arrived at the conclusion that the she was made to cause illness to infants. “‘Leave me!’ she said. ‘I was created only to cause sickness to infants. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.’”

Other regions of Mesopotamia had legends of Lilitu, around 3000 B.C. as a goddess of storms and winds. However, other experts say that Lilith emerged instead from the Greco-Roman folklore of Lamia, the disgraced goddess who was turned into a monster out of her own grief for her murdered children, and now takes vengeance by eating children. While Lamia supposedly went on to have more children, called the Empusae, which were evil spirits, just as Lilith is said to have many demonic children called the lilim, or lilin of which a hundred die per day; the two are said to be derived from one or the other.