Lilith's Legend Revealed

In Genesis, you won’t find Adam’s first wife Lilith mentioned. The name Lilith is only mentioned once in the Torah, and once in the Holy Bible (Isaiah 34:12-14).

1. Wildcats shall meet with hyenas,
goat-demons shall call to each other;
there too Lilith shall repose,
and find a place to rest.
There shall the owl nest
and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow. —NRSV Bible

Here is a translation taken for the St. Joseph, New American Bible;

Isaiah 34:11-12 But the desert owl..., the Lord will measure her with line and plummet to be an empty waste for satyrs to dwell in. ₁₂.Her nobles shall be no more, nor shall kings be proclaimed there; all her princes are gone.

And, the verse goes onto read;

_{Isaiah 34:14-15} On Zion sinners are in dread, trembling grips the impious: 14.Who of us can live with the consuming fire? Who can live with the everlasting flames? 15.He who practices virtue and speaks honestly, those who spurns what is gained by oppression. Brushing his hands free of contact with a bribe, stopping his ears lest he hear of bloodshed.

The Lilith story is unlike any religious folklore you have heard before. It is not like the typical biblical story of the new testament which features religious fables preaching peace, love and harmony. As far as I am concern, not even the old testament can offer up a comparable story that might match Lilith's intriguing surprises. For in this particular tale, biblical enthusiasts like myself, will meet the bible's first demonic creature, and too, the bible's first feminist figurehead.

The demonic creature featured in this story is so evil that it's legendary crimes are still being guarded against, and protection from creature's terrors is still being asked for and sought after by many faithful Hebrew and Zoroastrian followers even today. The creature's most heinous crime......, eating newborn babies as they sleep at night. And, when this evil creature isn't out hunting for food, the women of the village might want to keep watch over their sleeping brother or sons, father or husband. For it is written that this creature likes to pleasure itself at night, by raping men as they sleep and using their seed from the wet dream to breed with, and make demon children.

Like I said, this story is nothing like the biblical stories before us today. The Lilith Legend reads like a Steven King, best-selling, novel. The story first starts off with a creation story. Unlike Eve, Lilith wasn’t made from Adam. In fact, her body was believed to have been created from the same soil as was Adam's body made of. And, where might that place be? From under the clay that lay at the exact same location of where the Dome of the Rock- now resides in Israel.

It is written that Adam became lonely in the Garden of Eden, and so he asked God for a companion. God granted Adam his wish, and Liliu (Lilith, named by God) was given life. God gave Lilith free will in Eden. Her laws were the same laws that Adam lived by. Her duties were in fact equal to those duties held by Adam. More importantly, neither of them were ever entrusted by God with more or less than each other. Adam and Lilith were equal partners in a equally shared Paradise.

According to ancient Hebrew texts, things in Paradise between Adam and Lilith were not so friendly. It is written that though God considered them equal, Adam did not. He thought Lilith should be made to please him in certain ways, especially when Adam desired to have intimate relations with her. However, Lilith would not make love with Adam. It wasn't because she didn't desire Adam, because she did. However, Adam's insistence that Lilith had-to-be the submissive partner, only effectively turned Lilith off. So she refused Adam's advances. Can't really say that I don't blame her. At the very least, he could have agreed to take turns. Lilith's plight was a direct cause and effect from her fierce feminist side.

Adam became angry with God over Lilith's feminist actions. He was also angry with God for creating a woman equal to him. By this time, Adam wanted someone created from HIS likeness. As Adam became increasingly angry with God, God decided to punish Lilith for her "disobedience." He punished her by forbidding her and any of her offspring, from eating from the Tree of Knowledge.

Therefore in time, resentment slowly grew into loathing, and loathing turned into passionate rage. Soon to follow would come the day, when Lilith began to eat from the tree again. It is said that the fruit from the tree of knowledge, was an infectious drug for her. When God discovered Lilith's secret, he was furious with her. So he gathered Adam to punish her. Nevertheless, before God and Adam had the chance to punish her, Lilith had escaped from of the Garden Eden.

Lilith was now free to roam the countryside. Even though, she was now considered a fallen angel of the night. Lilith's new world felt cold and hard to her, and so she began to miss the warm comfort of Adam's embrace. Feeling restless, and to aid in her needs- Lilith began to sleep amongst a different man every night.

Upon hearing, that God had granted Adam a new wife, Lilith grew scared of the offspring between him and Eve. Lilith began to loath children. Her fear would increase over time, and it soon turned into paranoia. Paranoid that of Adam and Eve’s offspring, would seek revenge at the bequest of their father, Lilith began to eat and curse innocent children. Because of her cannibalism, Lilith’s beauty morphed into that of winged demon.

Now- I cannot tell you if all this is true. I believe that it is ancient folklore, and its hidden message bears meaning. However, I also feel that it is a fable of sorts, written down so that future generations might know the true wrath, of living a life full of hate and sin. Why the Nicaean councilmen, didn't allow this story into the bible is a mystery and always will be. We all need to realize that, after sixteen hundred years, it's story is still told and it's message has always been the same.

In fact, it is because of this first Creation tale; people believed that women were cursed with a monthly bloodletting. It was called the Lilith curse. A curse brought forth by the power of God, to remind us of his wrath. Some people also still believe that Lilith roams the world, seducing men to breed. It is also widely believed that illnesses such as crib death, is in fact an affliction caused by Lilith. However, I would like to know what you think. Why do you think Lilith's story was banned from the bible?

For me, I am a firm believer in the concept of knowledge. I want to know all there is to know about God, what kind of character he is and what kind of spirit was he. I also firmly believe that if more Christians new of this Creation story, there would not be so many discrepancies.

In the original Creation story; men and women had already began to evolve, plants already had names, and animal life had already became abundant and prospered. It was widely thought, among the our ancient Hebrew ancestors, that God created Adam and Lilith for his own amusement. The ancients honestly believe that Adam, Lilith and Eve were God's "pet science project." That he made these individuals to be part of an experiment and to be some sort of special prodigies. God blessed Adam with powers that were consider greater than that of Gabriel, Michael, and other archangels. God ordered the archangels to serve Adam, because God created Adam from his own likeness. Adam also had God's ear. He was thought to have visited Adam often, and converse with him about life and the universe.

Nevertheless, the point is that it was widely thought amongst the ancients that the "creation of man," happened long before them. It is important to understand that the ancient Hebrews were smart enough to look at the world around them, and to know that the earth had existed long before them. Therefore, I believe that is why there is so much controversy over the creation story and evolution. It is widely believed by believers and non-believers both alike that today's biblical, creation story, is full of riddles and evolutionary plot holes through out the entire thread. Banking my money that the Roman Catholic Church was seeking unequivocal dominance over new Christian believers, dabbled with the creation story to fit its needs back then. It would have been the Roman thing to do. The Romans didn't care how a story ended or how it was written just as long as the words were Roman and the message a Roman one. They could have never foreshadowed Darwin's evolutionary theory, anymore than we could have. Another factor we need to consider here is that this story, like the Genesis story, is not the only Creation stories ever written. There are many different biblical Creation stories, and my favorite is titled "The Life of Adam and Eve." In this particular story, readers are introduced to a much stronger Eve character, than the one in the biblical Canon of today, with a much more compassionate and loving Adam figure- who not only defends Eve's honor but verbally argues with God over Eve's innocence. In my favorite Creation tale the narrator isn't someone looking from the outside in, telling a tale. No..., it is a story that is directly spoken from the mouths of Adam, Seth, and Eve in first person. However, I do firmly believe the first creation story ever told was the Lilith story. The age of the story and the evidence left behind by our ancestors pertaining to the story itself, are about two thousand years older than the story now found in our bibles today. In fact- with regards to Darwin's theory, this Creation story in my opinion, it is the one that best lends itself to an evolutionary concept.

So why was the Lilith's story left out of the bible?

I think in part that the Lilith story was left out because this story gives woman some pretty serious power. Now think about that for a moment. At the time that the our Holy Canon was first put together, the Roman Catholic Church was under the direct rule of the strict Roman Emperor Constantine. The Emperor Constantine was the epidemy of what it meant to be Roman, and although wealthy, aristocratic, Roman women could rule and hold power- the majority of Roman women lived under the poverty line, and no better off than was the common, household, slave at that time. Average Roman women were not allowed to be a man's equal. It just wasn't allowed. Therefore how then could they be equal in the eyes of God?

We also must remember that these first Christian leaders, had converted from Pagan religions. They were not life long believers like we are. Because of this you can speculate that many of their pagan customs, intermingled with the new and exciting Christian ideas. What naturally emerged from the mixture, was but of course a tyrannical, male-dominant religion. Woman were forced to do slave labor, and be beggars to the stronger sex. It is also a known fact that women were kept uneducated, and that women were not allow to read the bible on there own. If they were that scared of women, it makes perfect logical sense why they kept out the feminist version of the story.

Tell me what you think. But no name calling please.