Lilith Enthroned by Fosco Culto
Lil, Lilla, Kisikil-lila, Lilû, Lilitu, Ardat-lili
The name derives from Sumerian líl, "air, spirit." The Akkadian Liliu and Lilitu haunted the open spaces and deserts. They posed a threat to pregnant women and infants. They had no spouse and were sexually predatory, rather like incubi and succubi. The Lilitu was incapable of "normal" sexual activity and was very aggressive with young men. She could not give birth or suckle a child. It was a Lilitu that made its home in the trunk of Inana's haluppu-tree and refused to leave. Lili-tu seems later to have been assimilated with the baby-stealing monster Lamastu. Sumerian Kisikil-lila and Akkadian Ardat-lili mean "Maiden Air Spirit." The demons, particularly the Ardat-lili, were often mentioned in magical texts and incantations. The Ardat-lili were credited with causing sterility in women and impotence in men.
Lilith
The Hebrew name Lilith is a form of Akkadian Lilitu. There is one possible reference to Lilith in the Hebrew Bible, in Isaiah 34:14, where she inhabited a desolate wasteland. Also an important female evil demon and child stealer in Jewish tradition. Known from writings of the Talmudic period (second-fifth centuries CE) and onwards. Responsible for sterility in women and impotence in men. According to Jewish incantation bowls found at Nippur dated to about 600 CE, three angels with the Aramaic names Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof were sent by God to negotiate with the demon Lilith, whose image was sometimes sketched in the center of the bowls. The angels managed to get her to promise that, wherever she and her associate demons saw the angels names prominently displayed, they would avoid that place.
Because of a popular association of her name with the Hebrew word for "night" layla, Lilith was pictured as a demon of darkness. Eventually, in the Jewish mystical or Kabalistic tradition, which began in the Middle Ages and still survives, she rose to become "queenly consort at God's side."
According to later Jewish legend, Lilith, who had long hair and wings, was Adam's first wife. When the pair quarreled over Adam's wanting superiority over her, Lilith spoke the deity's magic name and flew away to the Red Sea area, where she bore innumerable demon children and started her malevolent career. Against her and other liliths, people needed amulets and used invocations. The Jewish demon Lilith almost certainly originated in ancient Mesopotamia of the third millennium BCE. Called Lamia in Greek. In popular belief of the Middle Ages, Lilith was the devil or his grandmother and also mother of witches and witchcraft.
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Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam
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Conjuration of Lucifer
Lucifero + Ouyar + Chameron + Aiiseon + Mandousin + Premy + Oriet + Naydrus + Esmony + Eparineson + Estiot + Dumosson + Danochar + Casmiel + Hayras + Fabelleronthon + Sodimo + Peatham + come Luciferi + NEMA!
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Invocation to Lucifer
Brightest star of the morning, I call to thee!
Creator of light, progenitor of freedom, bringer of flame, I summon thee!
Unholy master of flame, eternal giver of hellfire, and defier of blind submission, I open to you!
Defiler of the sacred, deliverer of the profane, dark master of unhallowed gnosis, may your light envelope me in your Dragon Fire!
Empower me, enflame me, elevate me to your throne!
Through darkest night you shine the brightest.
From the depths of the Void you beckon me, and I answer, heart, body, and soul.
Electrify me with your hellfire and charge me with your legions.
Bring your kingdom to this chamber, unleash your hell upon this earth, and guide me to new heights of power!
'Awakening Lucifer'
— Asenath Mason
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"Ave Satani!"
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