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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. Female entity in Near Eastern mythology This article is about the religious figure Lilith. For other uses, see Lilith (disambiguation). Lilith (1887) by John Collier Lilith, also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis, is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, theorized to be ...
Inhabitants of the third earth, creatures supposed to have faces like humans but with the mouth of a dog, feet of cows and ears like goats. They never disobey God. [19] (Other) Isma'il, guardian angel of the first heaven, this angel offers advice to the believers on earth and prays for them. [20] (Angel)
Another, more demonic Lilith, known as the woman of whoredom, is found in the Zohar book 1:5a. She is Samael ( Satan )'s feminine counterpart. The Lilith that most are familiar with is the wife of Adam in the Alphabet of Ben Sira (8th to 10th centuries CE), known as Adam haRishon , "the first man", among kabbalists .
The obvious injustice to Lilith— who seems to have asked no more than her fair half, while Adam was the encroacher, on the assumption that they were created equal —inspired Collier's version of the legend, according to which Lilith leaves Eden voluntarily, rather than submit to dominance, but loses thereby the blessing of motherhood.
The Dogon people believe the Earth goddess was made when Amma flung earth into the primordial void. [36] In a Madagascar myth, two gods create human beings: the earth god forms them from wood and clay, the god of heaven gives them life. Human beings die so that they may return to the origins of their being. [37]
Adam [c] is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. [4] Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). [5] According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This ...
"Eve" in Hebrew is "Ḥawwāh" and is most commonly believed to mean "living one" or "source of life" as it is phonetically similar to "ḥāyâ", "to live", from the Semitic root ḥyw. [6] Hawwāh has been compared to the Hurrian goddess Ḫepat, who was shown in the Amarna letters to be worshipped in Jerusalem during the Late Bronze Age.
Alukah (Hebrew: עֲלוּקָה, romanized: ‘ăluqā) is a feminine Hebrew word that means "horse-leech", a type of leech with many teeth that feeds on the throats of animals. [1] According to some biblical scholars, alukah can mean "blood-lusting monster" or vampire. [citation needed] Alukah is first referred to in Proverbs 30:15 in the ...