I've been trying to decide what data/information to present as the first analysis because this will likely set the tone for how readers will interpret this blog. A really good website as a starting point which is dedicated to Lilith is,
http://lilith.abroadplanet.com/index.html
It covers a very large amount of data about Lilith ranging from poems, myth, rites, and different cultures views on Lilith. Now understand I am not going to be giving an internal interpretation about expressing your feminine side or masculine side through Lilith. This is not what this blog is meant to for. It's purpose is to attempt to gather facts and separate fiction from non-fiction.
In the first tab, "Goddess Lilith"
it begins with a basic translation that Lilith is derived from Lilitu which means wind spirit according to Assyrian-Babylonian text.
Historical origin of Lilith,
It then goes on to provide some historical accounts inferred by the author. He/she goes on to state that Lilith has many myths about her that are regarded as bad because sexuality was considered a bad thing back then because it would push a man or woman to perdition. The author then makes the comment that in Sumeria Lilith was the "handmaiden" of Inanna who would seduce men and bring them to Inanna's temple to participate in tantric sex worship. The author of the site goes on to discount that Lilith is not the Lilith from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Lilith is not connected with the night hag syndrome, or the Burney Relief picture.
In Nathan Nata Poira, Tuz haAretz, p 19
It goes on to say that Samael is given four kingdoms and in each kingdom is a wife of his. The four wives are, Lilith, Naamah, Igrat, and Even Maskit.
In Moses Cordovero, Pardes Rimmonim 186d,
There are two Liliths. One is great and one little. The great Lilith is the wife of Samael. The little one is the daughter of Lilith who is married to Ashmodai. There is some interpretation regarding Israel that I am unfamiliar with. At the end it talks about a blind dragon used in the sexual congress between Lilith and Samuel. Also the terms used to describe Lilith and Samael, the slant serpent, the torturous serpent, Leviathan is the coupling between the two, all which correlates strongly with Donald Tyson's "Liber Lilith". The blind dragon could be a possible sexual innuendo that represents the penis. Also, Tyson claims that he had a vague idea of Lilith mythology when he wrote the book and he claims to have telepathically wrote the entire thing through an unknown spirit/entity.
That's it for tonight folks. I will be posting the continued analysis of the site in a few days. Then from there I think I will make some rough assertions from texts in Liber Lilith that I think are a very good starting point in understanding succubus/incubus/and Lilith.
http://lilith.abroadplanet.com/index.html
It covers a very large amount of data about Lilith ranging from poems, myth, rites, and different cultures views on Lilith. Now understand I am not going to be giving an internal interpretation about expressing your feminine side or masculine side through Lilith. This is not what this blog is meant to for. It's purpose is to attempt to gather facts and separate fiction from non-fiction.
In the first tab, "Goddess Lilith"
it begins with a basic translation that Lilith is derived from Lilitu which means wind spirit according to Assyrian-Babylonian text.
Historical origin of Lilith,
It then goes on to provide some historical accounts inferred by the author. He/she goes on to state that Lilith has many myths about her that are regarded as bad because sexuality was considered a bad thing back then because it would push a man or woman to perdition. The author then makes the comment that in Sumeria Lilith was the "handmaiden" of Inanna who would seduce men and bring them to Inanna's temple to participate in tantric sex worship. The author of the site goes on to discount that Lilith is not the Lilith from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Lilith is not connected with the night hag syndrome, or the Burney Relief picture.
In Nathan Nata Poira, Tuz haAretz, p 19
It goes on to say that Samael is given four kingdoms and in each kingdom is a wife of his. The four wives are, Lilith, Naamah, Igrat, and Even Maskit.
In Moses Cordovero, Pardes Rimmonim 186d,
There are two Liliths. One is great and one little. The great Lilith is the wife of Samael. The little one is the daughter of Lilith who is married to Ashmodai. There is some interpretation regarding Israel that I am unfamiliar with. At the end it talks about a blind dragon used in the sexual congress between Lilith and Samuel. Also the terms used to describe Lilith and Samael, the slant serpent, the torturous serpent, Leviathan is the coupling between the two, all which correlates strongly with Donald Tyson's "Liber Lilith". The blind dragon could be a possible sexual innuendo that represents the penis. Also, Tyson claims that he had a vague idea of Lilith mythology when he wrote the book and he claims to have telepathically wrote the entire thing through an unknown spirit/entity.
That's it for tonight folks. I will be posting the continued analysis of the site in a few days. Then from there I think I will make some rough assertions from texts in Liber Lilith that I think are a very good starting point in understanding succubus/incubus/and Lilith.
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