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Lilith Black Moon (Sigil of Lilith) Judaism, Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, Lilith Astrology: Depicts a crescent moon atop a cross with arms of equal length, representing mind and matter. In Jewish mythology, Lilith is considered to be the first feminist [citation needed] and first wife of Adam. The Sigil of Lilith symbolizes the she-demon ...
Lilith (/ ˈ l ɪ l ɪ θ /; Hebrew: לִילִית, romanized: Līlīṯ), also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis, is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, theorized to be the first wife of Adam [1] and a primordial she-demon. Lilith is cited as having been "banished" [2] from the Garden of Eden for not complying with and ...
Abnoba - Gaulish goddess worshipped in the Black Forest; Acionna - Gaulish goddess of the river Essonne [1] Adsagsona - Gallic goddess of magic named on the Larzac tablet [2] Adsullata - goddess of the River Sava; Agronā - hypothetical Brittonic goddess of the River Ayr; Alantedoba - a goddess in Val Camonica [3] Ancamna - Gallic goddess in ...
Wiccan views of divinity are generally theistic, and revolve around a Goddess and a Horned God, thereby being generally dualistic.In traditional Wicca, as expressed in the writings of Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente, the emphasis is on the theme of divine gender polarity, and the God and Goddess are regarded as equal and opposite divine cosmic forces.
Lilith is the goddess that the Sanguinistas (an underground religious group composed mainly of vampires) worship and pray to. She is acknowledged in The Original Testament, the vampire Bible and predecessor to both the Old and New Testaments, as the second vampire—after God himself—and is portrayed as the messiah of vampires.
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 syncretism of the predominant triple moon goddess (a united figure of Diana/Hecate/Selene), combined with the Orphic belief that the Seasons and the Fates were divisions of this same divinity, along with the latter representing the three stages of life, ultimately gave rise to the modern conception of a Triple Goddess whose symbol is the ...
Drawing down the Moon (also known as drawing down the Goddess) is a central ritual in many contemporary Wiccan traditions. During the ritual, a coven 's High Priestess enters a trance and requests that the Goddess or Triple Goddess , symbolized by the Moon , enter her body and speak through her.