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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 December 2024. Female entity in Near Eastern mythology This article is about the religious figure Lilith. For other uses, see Lilith (disambiguation). Lilith Lilith (1887) by John Collier Lilith, also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis, is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, theorized ...
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The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD) is an academic reference work edited by Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking and Pieter W. van der Horst which contains academic articles on the named gods, angels, and demons in the books of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Apocrypha, as well as the New Testament and patristic literature.
Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass uses the character of Erin Greene to tell the mythical stories of women like Lilith and others in the divine feminine. The post MIDNIGHT MASS, the Lilith Myth, and ...
Judit M. Blair wrote a thesis on the relation of the Akkadian word lilu, or its cognates, to the Hebrew word lilith in Isaiah 34:14, which is thought to be a night bird. [14] The Babylonian concept of lilu may be more strongly related to the later Talmudic concept of Lilith (female) and lilin (female).
The greatest of these is the wife of Adam Kadmon, a being that God used as an avatar to create the Universe in all its ten or more dimensions, hence a multiverse. Another, more demonic Lilith, known as the woman of whoredom, is found in the Zohar book 1:5a. She is Samael 's feminine counterpart.
In Zoharistic Kabbalah, she is a queen of the demons and an angel of sacred prostitution, who mates with archangel Samael along with Lilith and Naamah, [1] sometimes adding Eisheth as a fourth mate. [2] [3] According to legend, Agrat and Lilith visited King Solomon disguised as prostitutes.
[129] [130] According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6:1–4 "is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology", and the "sons of God" mentioned in that passage are "celestial beings of ...