Lilith, goddess, Fallen Angel or the First Wife of Adam

The first we know about Lilith is from old Sumerian carvings, but she is a cult figure in more than hundred different religions. She is commonly depicted with wings, like an angel.




In the oldest mythologies she is a Goddess and in later stories she is demonized. Lilith is a motherless form of the divine feminine even known to some as Adam's 1st wife.

As the embodiment of the neglected, outcast and rejected aspects of the Great Goddess she calls women to rise up in strength to reclaim their own divinity. - Art: Lilith Rising

She has become the symbol of modern liberated women. Quite fitting perhaps, as the good society in the beginning saw the women's liberation as a rise against the natural order, very much the way the Jewish rabbis viewed Lilith.




Lilith is the primal feminine aspect of dark sexuality. She is the mythological first wife of Adam who refused to be subservient to Adam's authority and had a preference for being "on top". In a rage she spread her wings and flew away from the garden of Eden.

She has often been demonized as a vampiric succubus, stealing the lives of children and seducing, and riding men in the night, causing nocturnal emission.

In the myths she is often associated with the owl as in the picture above. Among others mentioned in the bible as a screeching owl Isaiah 34, 14




The Jewish scholars believed that the Law and the Talmud was told directly from God's mouth. Unlike the translators of the bible, they were not allowed to edit the scripts.

When Lilith was mentioned together with Adam as his wife in the first creation in Genesis 1, 26 they needed an explanation for how Eva seems to appear in the second creation story in Genesis 2, 4-25 (ref www.leighb.com/genesis.htm )

The most common explanation was this Lilith was Adam's 1. wife. There were no exact reference to why Lilith was dismissed, but they assumed she opposed to be dominated.

Other, even more vaguely explained Lilith as Adam's spirit wife. However the most down to earth claim is that Lilith was from the earth at the same time as Adam. This made Lilith Adam's equal. Lilith refused to lie on her back while Adam took the dominant position in sex (missionary style).

Lilith believed that they should make love as equals. Adam wanted his wife to be submissive, and Lilith left the Garden. God made Eve from Adams rib, so that she would obey him.



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