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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. 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 ...
Samael (Hebrew: סַמָּאֵל, Sammāʾēl, "Venom/Poison of God"; [1] Arabic: سمسمائيل, Samsama'il or سمائل, Samail; alternatively Smal, Smil, Samil, or Samiel) [2] [3] [4] is an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic tradition; a figure who is the accuser or adversary (Satan in the Book of Job), seducer, and destroying angel ...
Lilith is a feminine given name sometimes given in reference to Lilith, a character in Jewish folklore who was said to be the first wife of the first man Adam who disobeyed him, was banished from the Garden of Eden, and who became a mythical she-demon. [2] The mythological tale has inspired modern feminists. [3] [4] [5]
"Night creature" (KJV: "screech owl"): translated from Hebrew: לִילִית, lilith, [16] in this context certainly refers to 'some type of wild animal or bird', and appears to be related to לַיְלָה, laylah (meaning "night"). Some interpret it as the name of a female night demon, on the basis of an apparent Akkadian cognate used as the ...
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. There are mixed views of Lilith in the Zohar. In one account she is Samael's counterpart and a mother of demons.
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.
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Shedim (Hebrew: שֵׁדִים šēḏīm; singular: שֵׁד šēḏ) [3] are spirits or demons in the Tanakh and Jewish mythology. Shedim do not, however, correspond exactly to the modern conception of demons as evil entities as originated in Christianity. [4]