NAMES OF LILITH

Lilith/Lammashta: Hebrew name
Lilitu: Babylonian/Mesopotamian name
Lillake/Lamashtû : Sumerian name
Lamia: Greek name

Also Known As: night-owl, screeching owl, terror of the night, night-spectre, night monster, vampire, night creature, night hag, nightjar, night bird, seductive prostitute, and hand of Inanna.


Gello(Gylu):  Greco name during the Byzantine period


*The Byzantine Period of Greek History is one of the least understood and the most important. The Byzantine Empire laid the foundations for Orthodox Christianity in Greece, the Balkans and Russia. The Fall of Constantinople meant the end of Christianity in the Middle East, the rise of Ottoman-Muslim power and the East-West friction that exists today.





THE BIBLE

Isaiah 34:13: Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches. 14 And wild animals shall meet with                                hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there the night bird (liylith) settles and finds for herself a resting place. 15 There the owl nests and lays and hatches and                        gathers her young in her shadow; indeed, there the hawks are gathered, each one with her mate. (ESV)

Psalm 91:5: You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day
                   
Proverbs 2:18-19: for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

Genesis 1:27  (It is said that here is where she was created and was the 1st wife of Adam made from the earth NOT the rib of Adam as Eve was when she got created later on in Genesis.):                      So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 4: 12-14    (It is considered that the desendants of Cain where considered Vampires, with Cain causing the earth to drink the blood of his brother when he killed him):
                           'when thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My                          punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid. [it is interesting to note that                                  many cultures equate God with the sun - possibly meaning Cain would be hid from the sun?] and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth and it shall come to                                   pass, that everyone that findeth me shall slay me.'






The Koran

The Islamic conception of Iblis/Satan is remarkably similar to earlier or same-period Lilith myths; and both Lilith and Iblis/Satan were said to have defied God by refusing to bow down to Adam.


The figure of Lilith was transposed from earlier Jewish and Arabic cultures and adopted into Islamic lore. In most Islamic sects, Lilith is said to be the consort of Iblis/Shaitan (Satan or Samael) and is identified as the mother of the jinn.  In Morocco, however, Lilith is considered a "holy dame" and is identified by the title Lalla.

Islamic and Arabic legends often portray the jinn as identical with the karin or karina, the doubles who accompany individual men and women; and depictions of the jinn bear many similarities to those of the Hebrew Lilith. According to Moslem tradition, the jinn were created of fire some thousands of years before Adam. However, the jinn are considered to be like men, capable of future salvation and damnation; they can accept or reject God’s message; they are believers or non-believers.

Islamic myths of Lilith as mother of the jinn also hearken back to the earlier Arabic Karina, who is identical to Lilith (see above section, "The Arabic Karina"); and while Lilith/Karina is never mentioned as a singular demoness in the Qur’an, the idea of the individual karin/karina that accompanies each man or woman is referenced in several passages.

"And those who expend their wealth in alms for appearance sake before men, and who believe not in God nor in the last day; - but whosoever has Satan for his mate (qarina), an evil mate has he." 

"...and some shall come forward to ask others; and a speaker amongst them shall say, 'Verily, I had a mate (qarina) who used to say, "Art thou verily of those who credit? What! when we are dead, and have become earth and bones, shall we be surely judged?' He will say, 'Are ye looking down?' and he shall look down and see him in the midst of hell. He shall say, 'By God, thou didst nearly ruin me!'"

"And every soul shall come - with it a driver and a witness! 'Thou wert heedless of this, and we withdrew thy veil from thee, and to-day is thine eyesight keen!' And his mate (qarina) shall say, 'This is what is ready for me (to attest). Throw into hell every stubborn misbeliever! - who forbids good, a transgressor, a doubter! who sets other gods with God - and throw him, ye twain, into fierce torment! ' His mate shall say, ' Our Lord! I seduced him not, but he was in a remote error.'"



EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITING:

The Alphabet of Ben Sira:

"The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof. After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone' (Gen. 2:18). He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Adam and Lilith began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while am to be in the superior one.' Lilith responded, 'We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth.' But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air. Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: 'Sovereign of the universe!' he said, 'the woman you gave me has run away.' At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels to bring her back.

  "Said the Holy One to Adam, 'If she agrees to come back, fine. If not she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day.' The angels left God and pursued Lilith, whom they overtook in the midst of the sea, in the mighty waters wherein the Egyptians were destined to drown. They told her God's word, but she did not wish to return. The angels said, 'We shall drown you in the sea.'

  "'Leave me!' she said. 'I was created only to cause sickness to infants. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.'

  "When the angels heard Lilith's words, they insisted she go back. But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: 'Whenever I see you or your names or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over that infant.' She also agreed to have one hundred of her children die every day. Accordingly, every day one hundred demons perish, and for the same reason, we write the angels' names on the amulets of young children. When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers."





The Kabbalah Books:

The Qliphoth &The Tree of Death: I have seen the Unknown Lands, that no map has ever charted. I have lived in the deserts and the wastelands, and spoken with demons and the souls                                                         of slaughtered men, and of women who have dies in childbirth, victims of the she-fiend LAMMASHTA (Lilith)” Lilith: Night Specter, To Gamaliel, Lilith is                                                        attributed and "is the grand lady of all demons. The demons are sometimes considered to be the children of Lilith and is said to be the woman who                                                             comes to men in their dreams."

                                                     Years passed, the tree matured and grew big, but its trunk stood bare without branch or leaf.  For at its base, the snake who knows no charm had built                                                       its nest; in its crown, the fierce Imdugud-bird had placed its young; and in the middle, the Vampire Lilith had built her house, and so Inanna, the                                                                  lighthearted and ever joyful, shed bitter tears - Kramer, 198


Talmud: "Rab Judah citing Samuel ruled: If an abortion had the likeness of Lilith its mother is unclean by reason of the birth, for it is a child but it has wings." (Niddah 24b)  One may not                     sleep in a house alone [in a lonely house], and whoever sleeps in a house alone is seized by Lilith.” (Shabbath 151b)  In all those years [130 years after his expulsion from the                     Garden of Eden] during which Adam was under the ban he begot ghosts and male demons and female demons [or night demons], for it is said in Scripture: And Adam lived a                       hundred and thirty years and begot a son in own likeness, after his own image, from which it follows that until that time he did not beget after his own image… When he saw that                  through him death was ordained as punishment he spent a hundred and thirty years in fasting, severed connection with his wife for a hundred and thirty years, and wore clothes                    of fig on his body for a hundred and thirty years. – (‘Erubin 18b)

                                  
Midrash: The first medieval source todepict Adam and Lilith in full was the Midrash Abkir (ca. 10th century), Adam is said to be perfect until he recognizes either his sin or Cain's fratricide                  that is the cause of bringing death into the world. He then separates from holy Eve, sleeps alone, and fasts for 130 years. During this time Lilith, also known as Pizna or
               Naamah,desired his beauty and came to him against his will. She bore him many demons and spirits called "the plagues of humankind".

             The added explanation was that it was through  Adam's own sin that Lilith overcame him against his will. Older sources state clearly that after Lilith's Red Sea sojourn, she                          returned to Adam and begat children from him.


Zohar:    Lilith is said to have succeeded in begetting offspring from Adam during their short-lived sexual experience. Lilith leaves Adam in Eden, as she is not a suitable helpmate for him.                 She returns, later, to force herself upon him. However, before doing so she attaches herself to Cain and bears him numerous spirits and demons.
             “She wanders about at night, vexing the sons of men and causing them to defile themselves (19b),” 






The Dead Sea Scrolls:

Song for a Sage (4Q510-511): And I, the Instructor, proclaim His glorious splendour so as to frighten and to te[rrify] all the spirits of the destroying angels, spirits of the bastards, demons,                                                 Lilith, howlers, and [desert dwellers…] and those which fall upon men without warning to lead them astray from a spirit of understanding and to make their                                                   heart and their […] desolate during the present dominion of wickedness and predetermined time of humiliations for the sons of lig[ht], by the guilt of the                                                       ages of [those] smitten by iniquity – not for eternal destruction, [bu]t for an era of humiliation for transgression

The Seductress (4Q184):  Her gates are gates of death, and from the entrance of the house She sets out towards Sheol.None of those who enter there will ever return,And all who                                                       possess her will descend to the Pit.— 4Q184





Mesopotamian Mythology

Gilgamesh Epic: a character named Lillake appears as one of the evil spirits which squatter the tree of the love goddess, Inanna, and which the hero must eject.





Greek Mythology

Horace(De Arte Poetica liber, 340): Hieronymus of Cardia translated Lilith as Lamia, a witch who steals children, similar to the Breton Korrigan, in Greek mythology described as a                                                                   Libyan queen who mated with Zeus. After Zeus abandoned Lamia, Hera stole Lamia's children, and Lamia took revenge by stealing other women's                                                               children.




Lilith Incantation Bowls

Lilith Exorcized on a Persian Bowl: You are bound and sealed, all you demons and devils and liliths,by that hard and strong, mighty and powerful bond with which are tied Sison and                                                                Sisin....The evil Lilith, who causes the hearts of men to go astray and appears in the dream of the night and in the vision of hte day,Who burns and                                                              casts down with nightmare, attacks and kills children, boys an girls.She is conquered and sealed away from the house and from the threshold of                                                                 Bahram-Gushnasp son of Ishtar-Nahidby the talisman of Metatron, the great prince who is called the Great Healer of Mercy....who vanquishes                                                                     demons and devils, black arts and mighty spells and keeps them away from the house and threshold of Bahram-Gushnasp, son of Ishtar-                                                                           Nahid.Amen, Amen, Selah. (Patai78:228f)











Byzantine Text known as:

Apotrofé tes miarás kai akazártu Gyllús (Averting of the wicked and impure Gylu): Gello was a maiden from Lesbos who died leaving no descendants, and who came back every night from death to play with the children she had not brought up, and taking them in her arms into the darkness. Gello becomes Gylu, and becomes a demoness instead of a phantom. We are told that, in times of emperor Trajan there lived a woman, named Meletine, whose six children were robbed by the wicked and impure Gylu. When she gets pregnant for the seventh time, she builds a fortified tower, and, locked up there with twelve damsels, she gives birth to her child. One of those days the saints Sinisius, Sines and Sinodorus, brothers of Meletine, get by to pay her a visit. Meletine refuses to open the door, fearing Gylu, but she ends giving in to fraternal love and give them free way. She should never have done it! Just as the saint knights cross the ditch, the wicked Gylu, having taken the form of a little mouse, takes the chance to jump in, and, that very night, already inside the fortress, annihilates the seventh child. The saints, a bit ashamed, pray to God Father, who sends an angel to them, with the command to pursue Gylu as far as Lybanum (all this scene recalls closely the analogous mission commanded by YHVH to the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangeloph. 

The knights leave in search of Gylu, who, when she sees them, throws herself into the sea (remember the Red Sea). Saint Sinisius captures her on time and, torturing her, demands her to confess which God she adores, which power she has and, above all, to return alive the seven children of Meletine. That, replies Gylu, is impossible, unless I drink from Meletine's breasts. St. Sinodorus leaves at once for his sister's tower, and comes back with the requested nectar. The demoness drinks then, and she brings up each of the seven children, with their vital constants perfect. Saints of God, do not stone me and I swear, by the circle of Sun and the horns of the Moon, that wherever your name should be written and your command be read, and my twelve and a half names, I will not dare to approach that house, but I will flee three thousand miles away from there.





Aset (Isis) in:

The secret name of Ra (The legend of Ra and Isis): In this text Ra, the supreme god, is a venerable god, the Lord of the Universe: and he extends his authority above all beings created by him just by the power of his name, that even gods ignore. But he's also a venerable old man: as the Egyptian text says, not without humor:

The divine being (Ra) had gone old, he wrinkled his mouth, threw his spittle over the earth, and his spittle fell down on earth.

As for Isis, she was a woman versed in words, a powerful magician who preferred the company of gods to that of humans. Isis retrieves the decadent spittle of Ra, which soaks the earth, and, taking dust in her hand, she makes with it a magical serpent, which she puts on the route that Ra (the Sun God) makes every day and every night, from dawn to sunset, and from sunset to dawn. When he passed through that way, the serpent bites him, and, receiving the serpent bite, the god is victims of the most terrible anxiety: his limbs shake, the flame of life flees from them, and the inoculated poison makes him sweat copiously. The gods asked Ra which is it, what has happened, and he says he finds no words to answer about it: A deadly thing has bitten me. My hearts knows it, but my eyes haven't seen it. My hand has made it not. I never felt such a pain. There is no pain greater than this, (nor I know) who has made this to me. ...It isn't fire, it isn't water, but I'm colder than water, hotter than fire.

In that time of sorrow for Ra, most opportune (and whistling, we are tempted to say), came Isis with her power, with her breath of life and her magical formulae, which drive away the illness, her words that make live again the throats of those who languish. And she said: «What is it, oh my divine father? What's up? A serpent has inoculated you with the sickness. One of your creatures has raised its head against you. I'll knock it down with my efficient spells.

In return, of course, Isis demands to know His Name. Ra tries to resist in vain: the poison doesn't leave its way, and Ra's heart is about to leave him. At the very doors of death, he gives up: »I do consent to be investigated by Isis, and that my name passes from my body to her body». In a extreme of cunning, worthy of the worst femme fatale, Isis takes advantage of the situation and manages that Ra promise to give his two eyes to her son Horus; and only after taking away from him his two greatest treasures (his name and his eyes), she recites then her spell and save the God Father of everything from death.

»Certainly, the great god has got his name taken away. Ra lives, the poison dies, and vice-versa. A man son of woman lives and the poison dies». This is what Isis said, the Great, Lady of the Gods, who knows Ra by his own name.




The CONNECTION
(The Essence of Aset)

LILITH & ASET aka ISIS

*She who knows God by his name». Isis... and also Lilith. Taking the Lilith story from this approach, we understand better the nature of the secret agreement of the demoness with YHVH, the influence on him provided by her knowledge of his true name. And, as we compared the fleeing of Lilith with the one of Medea, it will not be out of point to recall how Medea flees also with the help of her relative, the Sun God, which is the grandfather of the great lineage of witches (Medea, Circe) which brighten up the life of Greek heroes.

*It's in this point that the parallelism with Lilith story gets extreme: the points of contact between the three mythical sequences (Egyptian, Hebrew and Byzantine) are much too solid to be rated as chance.

The stories written about each one of the names above, from the Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Hebrew, Babylonian, Sumerian, and Greek, ALL have identical story.

In all three cases, we have texts which tell a story, the attack of Lilith or Gylu, the bite of the serpent made by Isis. And in all three a fundamental role is played by the magic name, though with an remarkable evolution.

In Hebrew and Egyptian cases (which have the most ancient version), it's the magical name stolen from God that has the main value: Isis gets by a trick the magical name of God; Lilith's got it (we don't know how) and uses it to flee from Paradise. Knowledge of divine name serves so as a guarantee of independence from male authority.

As regards the duality of good/evil, Isis' case is ambivalent: she's the one who sends evil, but she's also the one who cures from it, just as the medieval witches did evil, but also undid it. This ambivalent quality of the Goddess tends to disappear as a more misogynist scheme gets imposed.

 

In Lilith's story, the magical name theme already works both ways: we still have (unexplained) the fact that Lilith knows God's name, but as a counterbalance it appears the element of the three angels' names, which has power to keep her away. Wherever a talisman with these names appears, she will respect it and keep the distance. The power of God commands respect, and in the end it wins over magic; but this keeps its defiant independence.

 
In the Byzantine text (the most recent one), this evolution has reached its peak: the theme of the demoness knowing the name of God has disappeared completely. On the other hand, the prophylactic value of the talismans with the three angels (made into saints) does remain. And it's added that the talismans need, to be effective, to have also the twelve and a half secret names of Gylu , that she confesses to the saints. So, it's now the Goddess who, by losing her name, becomes defenseless and must move back under His authority.





 


SPIRITUAL CORRUPTION OF OUR YOUTH
by: Movies, t.v., music, cartoons, comic books, and video games...

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime Series)
Lilith is the second angel in the anime series



















Ancient - Lilith's Embrace


















Caine:
"Alone in the darkness I can hear the sweetest voice
whispering words of surcease and I rejoiced!
Who would dare speak to one so condemned as I?
Do you know of my most wicked crime?"

Lilith:
"I'm known as Lilith, your fahter's first bride
Like you I'm cursed to dwell in the shadows of night."

Caine:
"How can one survive here in the dark groves forlorn?
Without a sole companion or a friend of some form?"

Lilith:
"But there are many companions in my infinite kingdom.
Through magick and sorcery I've found my freedom."

Caine:
"I was cold and she clothed me,
I starved and she fed me,
I was mournful yet she loved me.
I shed bloody tears and she made them
disappear she kissed away my fears.
Her powers I could see would forever
set me free I begged her to awake me.
Her blood, sweet as wine, as I drank
she would sigh then I closed my eyes.

Into the dark I fell and fell a deepest abyss
surrounded by obscurity a price for her gift.

Out from the frigid blackness came a radiant glimmering light
revealing the flaming archangel known as Michael"

Micheal:
"Cursed son of Adam, indeed His mercy is great
bow thy head and repent thine sins now before it's too late."

Caine:
"Not by His grace but my own,
I choose to live with pride
your "merciful" God disgusts me
his Kingdom infested with lies."

Micheal:
"You sad irreverent fool have thee no shame?
Tou shall forever fear the light of the Living Flame."

Caine:
"On the morning by silver wing Raphael came to me and said
Abel did firgive me not by his (forgiveness) but mine own
for darkness is my home.

I walk alone, my skin would burn by the sun's rays I learned
and the dawn had returned to earth below
I did run seeking shelter from the sun
the endless night of Caine had begun.

When I awoke, Uriel appeared
the reaper with black wings
but thrice denied his grace
hence, my blood-curse begins & hellip."




Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito (Anime Series)
Lilith is one of the main female leads and is called the third Yami and the creator of all the worlds and Eve.
Lilith appears bisexual in this incarnation she seems to have extreme love and regard for Adam, her creator, whom she calls "Papa" .

















Trinity Blood (Anime Series),
Lilith is a Crusnik, a vampire that feeds off other vampires.























Lilith is the name of two fictional American comic book characters owned by Marvel Comics.
The first is a superheroine, daughter of Dracula and, like him, a vampire, although her powers and weaknesses differ from most other vampires.
The second is an evil demon sorceress.
























In Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Lilith is a demon whom players have to defeat in order to gain access to Tristram.
Known as the "Mother of All Demons", this is from REAL SATANISM called "Order Of The Nine Angels",
she gives birth to demons called the Lilin which have lives of their own, but always remain obedient to their mother.
Also she is the Mother of the Nephalim, which are the "Humans" of Sanctuary.

















Blackest Night (DC Comics),
Lilith rises from the dead as a member of the Black Lantern Corps.
She participates in the assault on the Titans, using her telepathy to mask Terra's true appearance and allow her to get close to Beast Boy.     




















Supernatural (TV Series)
Lilith is the first demon that Lucifer created after his outcast from heaven to mock the humans.
She holds the deals of humans and then breaks seals through out the fourth season.
She is killed at the end of the fourth season to break the final seal that sets Lucifer free.























In April 2010, British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth
announced their new concept album, All Hallows Eve, to be "based on Adam's first wife, the lascivious Demoness Lilith".























Lilith is the ranking demon of Satan in the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony,
though she goes by many similar names. She is used to help try to corrupt many of the Incarnations,
until she falls in love with the Incarnation of War and deserts Satan for him.























White Wolf, Inc. is an American gaming company and book publisher,
most famous for the Vampire: The Requiem, Bloodline, & The Masquerade roleplaying game.
They have become one of the world's most successful role-playing game companies.



LILITH, is the REAL essence behind ASET