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In many other games or stories Lilith is that vampire or that succubus. Or just another “demon prostitute”?
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In the era before the Bible or Testament, she is a Fallen Angel or some Goddess, before Yahweh made Adam and Eve?
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Before the Karens and Beckys, there was “Lilith” in those ancient times.
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My favorite Lilith is D2 (Darksiders 2). Do you know a Lilith aside from Diablo?
According to europena biblical literature theory, she was the first wife of adam and the mother of monsters. however she was invented during the middle ages due to the mesopetamian story of gilgamesh. It was a part of jewish and a few other mystical lore, created to paint a figure of the night, usually a woman who was promiscuous. Not an actual biblical figure that had any bases. It was actually designed by male priests to paint women as evil and the source of lustful sin.
thats a heavily condensed version but you can read the info on the wiki about her as well.
She was Adam’s equal, made of the same mud as he, but she was too headstrong for the first man, made dominion over beasts. Adam asked for a wife and was given one made of his rib so that she was of his flesh and linked to him by His divine grace.
Or some nonsense like that.
Regardless, Lilith has been a cautionary tale against women falling out of line from their fathers/husbands. I think she must have been too interesting for them to keep around, ‘lest the women gain too much independence.
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Yes, my cat is called Lilith.
Lilith can mean “belonging to the night”, she is completely black, super stealthy and is part demon for sure.
As others have said, supposedly from the Hebrew folklore (unless it is even older myth), the beta version of Eve, the wife of the first man, Adam. She was unfit for Adam, but it is unclear if he had blue hair.
Lilith in the biblical sense wanted to be equal to Adam and not submit to his needs. So she left the garden and was replaced with Eve who was made from his rib as a way to be more in line with his demands. Pretty much, Lilith refused to be treated like a slave to man.
Mh, Lilith stems from older things than hebrew folklore. She can be tracked back to gods of Babylon’s times. Stuff got reinterpreted, taken, changed and that’s how christianity eventually adapted Lilith as what she’s seen now. If you want to really know what or who Lilith is, I guess going back in the timeline is the point to start.
You’d be better cracking open a Torah or Talmud rather than Googling though the Googled answers provided here are not far off.