I am in love with a dark lady

One of the Goddesses who dips in and out of my life is Lilith. She has gone through an interesting metamorphosis from Demoness to Dark Goddess. Lilith, (when known at all) is known as the first wife of Adam and was not to bow to Adam’s will especially in sexual matters, as there are both created equal. If anything Lilith wanted to be on top, literally. Adam was adamant that she was his helper and he would not bow to her. Lilith took matters into her own hands and seduced Yahweh to which end he revealed his name. Lilith spoke the Divine Name and flew away from the Garden and Adam forever. Her new home was a cave near the Red Sea where she took demons as lovers and filled the world with her demon children, thus gaining the name Mother of Demons. However, when she refuses to rejoin Adam, her children are slaying which caused Lilith to curse all of Adam’s offsprings and attacked mothers and babies. She also steals the semen of men during the night to replace the children that were lost.

However, within the Neopagan community she has been adopted as a Goddess, especially by those groups that have leanings towards femiminism. They focus on Lilith’s sacrifies, she leaves paradise and her children are slaughtered so she does not have to be submissive to Adam. For these groups she is a symbol of strength and defiance. Her nightly attacks are seen as revenge for women who have been hurt by men. Yet, with this interpretation, these group are missing an important part of her mythos, the fact that attacks mothers and babies. These groups say that Lilith was a Sumerian Goddess or a maiden to Innanna, and would invite men to have sacred sex with Priestessess. Unfortunately, there is no evidence to support this. This is part of a trend to liberate any “evil” feminist mythological character. They try and say that they was no Gods in Ancinet times.

Adam literally means “Mankind”, therefore Lilith is his shadow self. She is our subconsciousness, the part of us that is defianant and passionate. She is sex, she is the things that society frowns upon, things that are natural and enjoyable. With this in mind we have to reach the conclusion that Eve is also our subconscious. But she is wholly part of Adam, she is the civilised “face” that we show to people. Eve was “created” to make us acceptable. She is the opposite of Lilith. The two of them create the whole of our inner self. Lilith’s children are own personal demons. They are criminal and harmful. These are imbalances in our lives that can lead to our own destruction. With this in mind, the old myth make sense in a modern society. Adam wanting Lilith to be submissive is the civilisation wanting to tame the animal. Lilith’s desire to be on top is the lover’s need to dominate the rational self. Lilith flight from paradise to a cave represent those desire being supressed to the dark parts of our mind.

This is just small article about Lilith and if you would like to know more I would recommend the following:

The Story of Lilith – http://jewishchristianlit.com//Topics/Lilith/alphabet.html

The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, by Reginald Campbell Thompson

Semitic Magic : Its Origins and Development, by R. Campbell Thompson