For 4,000 years the highly seductive yet destructive Lilith has wandered the earth, figuring in the mythic imaginations of writers, artists and poets...
Her dark origins lie in Babylonian demonology, where amulets and incantations were used to counter the sinister powers of this winged spirit who preyed on pregnant women and infants. Lilith next migrated to the world of the ancient Hittites, Egyptians, Israelites and Greeks...
The ancient name “Lilith” derives from a Sumerian word for female demons or wind spirits—the lilītu and the related ardat lilǐ.
The lilītu dwells in desert lands and open country spaces...
Her breasts are filled with poison, not milk...
The ardat lilī is a sexually frustrated and infertile female who behaves aggressively toward young men.
Lilith makes a solitary appearance in the Bible, as a wilderness vampiric demonness shunned by the prophet Isaiah...
In the Renaissance, Michelangelo portrayed Lilith as a half-woman, half-serpent, coiled
around the Tree of Knowledge.
In most manifestations of her myth, Lilith represents chaos, seduction and ungodliness. Yet, in her every guise, Lilith has cast a spell on humankind...
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